Richard A Jansma, Lauren K Carlson

Broschiertes Buch

Always Near the Edge

Beschreibung

The selection of poetic works in this volume range from his pondering the joys of intimacy with lines sprinkled across the page, to a compact three-hundred word single-sentence rant that captures his agonizing abandonment to "the drug." Readers will find a delightful whimsical page on "the One Man Committee on Ways and Means." Although several of these works plunge deeply into the pain and frustration Jansma experienced, he expresses those feelings often through imagined characters careening through the painful blunders of life. One extended poem celebrating a marriage reminds one of Carl Sandburg or Robert Frost. His deeply spiritual prayer before surgery takes us beyond the bounds of human limits into a trajectory toward the hard consolation of profound faith. The poetic works are arranged under the section titles: Sensuality, Desolation, Lyrical, Philosophical, and Hard Consolation.

Autor

Richard Jansma grew up in Iowa, always brilliant and active in sports as well as academics. Early on he was afflicted with a serious digestive disorder which distorted his life, but did not prevent him completing high levels of academic achievement. Eventually it prevented him from finishing his Ph.D. at Michigan State University, and other frustrations sent him spiraling into disability and unemployment. However, he continued to write creatively and particularly encouraged other writers who went on to noteworthy publications. One among them, Linda Nemec Foster, attributes her life as a writer, poet and presenter specifically to Richard's encouragement and advice at crucial times in her early development. Richard died at only fifty-three, just as he wrote in the initial poem of this volume, "I was always too young to die."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Heart & Life Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 175g
• ISBN-13: 9798218495343
• Artikelnr.: 72007433