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One of a handful of poetry books that I've
read in recent years, that I can fully endorse.
Courageous, graceful and all its own. Marvelous
work. Baranow is the real deal.
--Walter Pavlich, poet and professor of English
Like a younger and more sensuous Mary Oliver, tracking and inventing her
way through themes of love, death, nature, family, solitude, Joan Baranow
turns and returns to lyric as to a quenchless source.
To listen to her music - precise and rich - is like overhearing the
multiple hum of life and loss in a complicated natural environment.
What is that environment?
"What does it matter if beauty / walks in the woods or dwells only
/ in the neural channels of the mind?" In Baranow's poetry,
it does both.
--Alicia Ostriker, poet and professor of English
The words of Joan Baranow's poems seem inevitable, set down on the page
with the greatest of care, as though they'd been forged in a great
pressure. And because the words and lines have this sense of sincerity and
surety, as well as a wonderful balance of strong image and equally strong
discourse, I am completely willing to travel wherever the poems take me.
Such faith is necessary, too, for none of her poems shy away from the
isolation inherent in our human condition, nor from the terrible risk we
take when we dare to love - her love poems of section II are among the
very best I've read in a long, long time.
--Len Roberts, poet and professor of English |
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Order Living Apart book |
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As a companion to David's Making, Joan's poems in Blackberry Winter tell
the story of their efforts to create a family.
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Order Blackberry Winter
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Joan
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About Joan: |
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Joan Baranow has always loved the music of lanquage.
She holds a PhD in English from Rutgers and is a recipient of an
Individual Artists Grant in Poetry from the Ohio Arts Council.
She is the author of Living Apart
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Read Joan's
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