Ash and Embers by James A Zoller

Ash and Embers by James A Zoller

Ash & Embers embodies the inherent messiness of life's journey, sorting detritus from treasures, identifying and naming memory, finding categories that reflect life's winding pathways and its treacherous footing. Taking his various roles--son, brother, husband, father, grandfather, neighbor, teacher, citizen, believer, writer, and reader--as narrative stances, Zoller considers the details of life and its larger forces. Thematically complex, Ash & Embers accepts that the journey is translated through the often difficult tool of language; thus, it embraces the tension that language is inadequate, alien, and, paradoxically, a tool for recognition and understanding. In Zoller's poems how we speak about life--as physical passage, as spiritual pilgrimage, as imagined patterns, as emotional canvas, as interwoven narrative strands, and as social construct--all these voices meet in one conversation. Between Photographs that begins the book and Hard Copy that brings it to a close we find everything from first impressions to Second Knowings, from notes on the poems of Mao and Seamus Heaney to prayers to the God of time, eternity, and love.

Zoller, James A.: - James A. Zoller lives and writes in rural western New York where he and his wife, Donna, raised their four children. Simple Clutter is the first of his books, which include Living on the Flood Plain and Ash & Embers. Zoller has spent the last thirty-four years teaching writing and literature at Houghton College. In the near future Zoller looks forward to shifting his attention full time to his writing projects, which includes several more collections of poems, a collection of short stories, and a composition text to be called Crossing the River. In addition to teaching and writing the three books named here, he has written columns for local newspapers, undertaken a travel blog (flood-plain.blogspot.com), published short stories, and written ceremonial poems for various public occasions, including the weddings of his children.

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ISBN 13	9781532636127
ISBN 10	1532636121
Title	Ash and Embers
Author	James A Zoller
Series	Poiema Poetry
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Year published	2018-03-15
Number of pages	100
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.