Deni Naffziger

Broschiertes Buch

Strange Bodies

Poems

Beschreibung

"¿¿¿Naffziger's poetry boldly emancipates the soul from its worldly shell." Kirkus Reviews Just as Elizabeth Bishop wrote of her initial self-realization that "you are an I, you are an Elizabeth," we all come to a similar awakening, an awareness of the physical body and our own consciousness. Over the years, we may begin to question our understanding of the world and our place in it, which awakens the spirit, and we find ourselves longing to unite the physical and metaphysical. Strange Bodies takes us on a journey-using story, science, metaphor, and myth-that brings us full circle to the essence of who we are and how closely we are connected to each other and the natural world. The final section of the book, "Still Life," is a biography of existence through thought and image. Completed during the pandemic and initially exhibited at the University of Pikeville, in Pikeville, Kentucky, with exhibitions following at The Secret Studio (Columbus, Ohio) The Dairy Barn Arts Center (Athens, Ohio)), and Praxis Gallery (Minneapolis, Minnesota), "Still Life" is a collaboration between Naffziger and her husband, photographer Mark Hackworth, which addresses aesthetics and beauty and what those concepts inspire in the day to day. "Still Life" includes nineteen black and white photographs.

Autor

Deni Naffziger is the author of five books including Strange Bodies, Desire to Stay, Still Life; Revenants: A Story of Many Lives (co-authored, funded by The Ohio Arts Council), and a children's coloring tale, A Story of Flying, which was produced for the Passion Works exhibition,"A Story of Flying," and was funded by The Ohio Arts Council. She has also published three chapbooks: Desire to Stay (The Spoon River Quarterly), Close to Home (Crazy River), and Intervals (Pikeville Review). Her work has been published in many literary magazinesand journals, including New Ohio Review, Atticus Review, The MacGuffin, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, The Main Street Rag, and others. For nearly twenty years, Naffziger edited Riverwind, a national literary publication (Hocking College, Nelsonville, Ohio.) She earneda Fulbright Scholarship in 1990 and taught Creative Writing and Advance Literature at Kendal College in Kendal, England. She has over thirty years of experience teaching creative writing and disability studies. Naffziger currently serves as Poet-In-Residence at Passion WorksCommunity Studio in Athens, Ohio.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Shadelandhouse Modern Press, LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 203mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9781945049361
• ISBN-10: 1945049367
• Artikelnr.: 68988322