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Just a Few Feathers, a Poetry Book

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TD Recommended Iconby Ute Carson

I love poetry that provokes images of moment, nods of empathy, and that reads and sounds, not like ditty rhymes, but as prose. Ute Carson’s work evokes for me–it evokes a ken…of life, of living, of memory, of laughter and all those things which make us conscious of ourselves and our existence within the living world of experience that imbues us. Do take a moment to go to Ute’s website and listen to her readings from Just a Few Feathers. You’ll see what I mean.–D. L. Keur, The Deepening World of Books

AVAILABLE FROM PLAIN VEIW PRESS & FROM AMAZON.COM

ABOUT THIS POETRY BOOK

book cover for Just a Few Feathers, Poetry by Ute CarsonUte Carson manages to find universal truths in ordinary things, and clothes them in language that is at once beautiful and profoundly universal. The result is a music that sings in our very core. Leticia Austria, Poet The author employs a number of poetic tools to convey her thoughts, including wonderful imagery and simple yet effective phrasing. Harmony McGlothlin, Publisher & Editor Grace Notes Books and Editor-in Chief of Notes Magazine A gladness for life and family is countered by occasional poem lines of survived horror. Such lines render the poet steeled in mind and intensely honed to mankind’s fallacies. Ute Carson’s Just a Few Feathers is a collection one wants to keep close by and refer to often. Kaye Voight Abikahled, The Poetry Society of Texas, Counselor for the Austin Area

  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Plain View Press (April 1, 2011)
  • Language: English

ABOUT UTE CARSON, POET & AUTHOR

Ute Maria Elisabeth Gräfin von Hardenberg-Carson was born on the Baltic Coast in Köslin, Pomerania, shortly after the beginning of World War II. As Russian forces swept toward central Europe, she fled westward with her mother and grandmother, settling in what was to become West Germany. There she went to school and attended the Universities of Hamburg and Mainz. Immigrating to America in 1962, she completed her masters at the University of Rochester, becoming a college instructor of German Language and Literature, and Women’s Studies. You can find Ute on the web at http://www.utecarson.com/ and on Facebook.

The Rumi Daybook, a Poetry Book

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by Kabir Helminski  & Camille Helminski, editors

The Rumi Daybook, a poetry book coverEXPLORE The Rumi Daybook AT AMAZON

When the words of Rumi enter your heart, something softens, breaks, and is subtly reborn. That he wrote the words seven hundred years ago in a medieval Persian world that bears little resemblance to ours makes their uncanny resonance to us today just that much more remarkable. Here is a treasury of daily wisdom from this most beloved of all the Sufi masters—both his prose and his ecstatic poetry—that you can use to start every day for a year, or that you can dip into for inspiration any time you need to break through the granite of your heart.

Dreaming in Darkness by Jessica Kristie

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Dreaming in Darkness
Jessica Kristie
Willow Moon Publishing, LLC;
March 30, 2011
Format: eBook


In today’s fast paced society, many believe poetry is a fading art form. Then along comes a poet who breathes life into her work, and leaves her reader yearning to grab a pen themselves. Jessica Kristie’s Dreaming in Darkness contains a diverse collection of well versed poems infused with passion, emotion, sorrow and life. As written on her website Jessica Kristie declares “Poetry is my heart, anchors my soul and documents my journey.” In Dreaming in Darkness, Jessica Kristie certainly proves this.

Jessica Kristie’s poetry that is showcased in Dreaming in Darkness explores many themes including love, nature, friendship, loneliness and more. What stands out most is how very honest she is as she pens her poetry. It is as if her heart is writing the stanzas for her. A brilliant example of Jessica Kristie’s honesty that is featured in her poetry is her poem Message. Read on for an excerpt from Message. This is Jessica Kristie showing the world that the art of poetry is still alive and well.

Excerpt from Dreaming in Darkness:

I speak upon the wind,
so my words will catch a breeze.
Then travel through the waves,
and land within your seas.
The whispers of my soul,
lay on your ocean’s wind.
Now listen as they speak,
and tell you what’s within.


–Amanda Haury