A Coracle for Dreams
A Coracle for Dreams
- Aliki Barnstone, Poet Laureate of Missouri, 2016-2019, Author of Dwelling, Translator of Liana Sakelliou's Portrait Before Dark
Agnes Vojta's poems in Coracle for Dreams are written with intelligent and richly crafted images. They draw us into a keen sense of Place and its relationship to those seeking permanence- the "dream driven", who journey between homes forsaken and homes gained in new lands. The speakers learn through the naming of flora and fauna that "... naming is knowing", and "Familiarity breeds love" of newfound landscapes. Yet nature is not reflexively centered, but rather teaches us "how to grow / despite gaping wounds." Narrative and memory are not without poetic engagement with death and the end of what we thought would endure. Observing a landscape where woods were drowned to build a dam, "We float between cedar ghosts", sojourners whose eyes engage the "soft silence" of the scene. Though all is not loss, for these poems are love songs to wild regions, land, and kinship, even when it means people will pass away, - those so tightly held in love, often met with anticipatory grief, that "liminal space / between hope / and letting go."
- Jeffrey Alfier, Co-editor, Blue Horse Press and San Pedro River Review With this earthy and honest collection, Agnes Vojta shows us what it is to be an immigrant, removed from family by miles but not heart. She shares the familiar and walks us with her loved ones through small moments into grand revelations. "I was a stranger. Did not know/ the names of tree or bird./ Naming is knowing." Each poem is a naming of moments and observations, of memories and fears. Vojta's graceful writing holds us with delicate stark patience through her discoveries and losses into a collection we can return to with grateful reverence. "She whispers w
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- Aliki Barnstone, Poet Laureate of Missouri, 2016-2019, Author of Dwelling, Translator of Liana Sakelliou's Portrait Before Dark
Agnes Vojta's poems in Coracle for Dreams are written with intelligent and richly crafted images. They draw us into a keen sense of Place and its relationship to those seeking permanence- the "dream driven", who journey between homes forsaken and homes gained in new lands. The speakers learn through the naming of flora and fauna that "... naming is knowing", and "Familiarity breeds love" of newfound landscapes. Yet nature is not reflexively centered, but rather teaches us "how to grow / despite gaping wounds." Narrative and memory are not without poetic engagement with death and the end of what we thought would endure. Observing a landscape where woods were drowned to build a dam, "We float between cedar ghosts", sojourners whose eyes engage the "soft silence" of the scene. Though all is not loss, for these poems are love songs to wild regions, land, and kinship, even when it means people will pass away, - those so tightly held in love, often met with anticipatory grief, that "liminal space / between hope / and letting go."
- Jeffrey Alfier, Co-editor, Blue Horse Press and San Pedro River Review With this earthy and honest collection, Agnes Vojta shows us what it is to be an immigrant, removed from family by miles but not heart. She shares the familiar and walks us with her loved ones through small moments into grand revelations. "I was a stranger. Did not know/ the names of tree or bird./ Naming is knowing." Each poem is a naming of moments and observations, of memories and fears. Vojta's graceful writing holds us with delicate stark patience through her discoveries and losses into a collection we can return to with grateful reverence. "She whispers w
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