Where She Dances is a journey through a harsh and almost Biblical desert landscape into a garden world, celebrating the various goddess dances of death, love and transformation along the way, a story of beauty and terror, inner and outer weather, unrelenting sun and the oases of nightfall.
When She Became You / Songs to Suzanne, by award-winning poet Michael Jennings, chronicles a love story, the light and the shadows, over most of a lifetime, from the passionate, surreal, goddess-like portraits of the opening "Where She Dances" section to the devastating dark dirges of the "Lost Hallways" sequence: a record of love as lived and a testament to the fact that both love and poetry exist at the intersection of the sacred and the profane. These are intimate and private lyrical exultations that affirm what is most valuable and most powerful in our shared expressions of what it means to be most fully human and deeply alive. They are the work of a magisterial poet at the pinnacle of his craft.
Michael Jennings is a shaman of the natural world, a shaman who is gifted with the miracle of the written word. In this new collection, as in his previous books, Jennings, like the late Ted Hughes, is especially effective in capturing the deepest essence of animals. He writes of geese rising, "finding their bearings, gathering the sun's power / into their left eye and along their immaculate, outstretched / identical bodies...," of a hawk's "granite facemask / blank as an angel's," and a Horned Owl, the poet sees as a "...bleary buccaneer, age-ridden / and world-weary / in the circling forest of blood and thunder." The Moon's Children is a stunning poetic achievement. -Larry D. Thomas, Member Texas Institute of Letters, 2008 Texas Poet Laureate His gift is to reflect the immensity of life, both exterior and interior. -Susan Deer Cloud, Stone Canoe
Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, the story follows Peter Dandridge, who grapples with love, duty, and guilt as he enlists despite efforts to avoid combat. In Vietnam, he navigates his role as a soldier while dealing with frustration towards a fellow soldier, Rabinowitz. A spy plot and a Viet Cong attack abruptly end his service, leaving Peter with a tarnished record and unresolved questions. Encouraged by his love, Stephanie, he embarks on a quest for answers that reveal shocking and unexpected truths.
The story unfolds amidst a millennium-long war between oppressive forces and those seeking genuine leadership. The Armah Family Guardians, once pivotal in this struggle, are reduced to two surviving twins. As one escapes from an assassin's guild while the other remains trapped, their paths converge under the weight of external manipulations and hidden agendas. The narrative explores themes of survival, loyalty, and the complexities of their intertwined fates as they grapple with the question of how their adversaries operate.
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