Simple Weight by Diane Kistner
With consummate skill, subtle and exacting artistry, and fierce passion, Tania Runyan's first collection, Simple Weight, brilliantly unveils the mysterious ties tethering heaven to earth and] explores the painful and troubling journeys of a soul in search of the divine. Hers is a voice brimming with a palpable humanity and beautiful pathos--complex, wise, mutable, and wholly original. --Maurya Simon, author of The Raindrop's Gospel __________ Spiritual without being in the least bit preachy, Runyan deals in matters of the heart, letting us experience the ineffable through a variety of subjects, often commonplace objects: a dead goldfish, a broken dishwasher, dust mites. Runyan uses deeply infused language throughout: I chew the name God, God like habitual / gum. God, the holy / singularity. God who buries // his miracles in the soil. These] poems have weight--emotional, spiritual, political--but are anything but simple. --Barbara Crooker, author of Radiance, Line Dance, and More __________ Tania Runyan claims she does not concern herself with things too marvelous for her. Well, she's lying. Simple Weight ponders and illuminates cicadas emerging from the earth and martyrs merging their bones with dust. In Runyan's world--which is our world--the human intrudes upon the holy, making it more holy still. These poems, like the Psalms themselves, will fall through the years like a muscle of water. Drink deeply. --Paul Willis, author of Rosing From the Dead: Poems
Tania Runyan is the author of the well-loved How to Read a Poem: Based on the Billy Collins Poem Introduction to Poetry; has served as an editor for Every Day Poems; and is the author of four books of poetry, including A Thousand Vessels and Simple Weight. Her poems have appeared in many publications, including Poetry, Atlanta Review, Nimrod, and Southern Poetry Review. She received an NEA Literature fellowship in 2011.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780982861240 |
| ISBN 10 | 0982861249 |
| Title | Simple Weight |
| Author | Diane Kistner |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Futurecycle Press |
| Year published | 2010-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 74 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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