Book details

  • Genre:poetry
  • Sub-genre:General
  • Language:English
  • Pages:96
  • Paperback ISBN:9798317855925

The Torn Window

By Anne Zuckerman

Overview

The Torn Window is Anne Zuckerman's collection of poems shaped by the natural world of the Pacific Northwest and the uncertainties of perception. Moving between the familiar and the surreal, the poems consider violence alongside a longing for beauty, art, solitude, and peace. Intelligent, painterly, and witty, they invite readers into a world of questions without answers.
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Description

The Torn Window is a book of poems that fracture and question language and perception. Grounded in the natural world of the Pacific Northwest, where the poet lives, the poems sometimes turn surreal. Nature is animated, conscious, and endowed with agency. Language and perception remain dynamic and suspect. Attentive to paradox and the enigmas of existence and presence, the poems are painterly in their precision. They question violence and ache for beauty, art, solitude, and peace. Philosophical and curious at their core, the poems in The Torn Window never answer their own questions.
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About The Author

Anne Zuckerman grew up in New York City with an artistic mother and a logical father. She spent fifteen years in Vermont, living on a commune, teaching in free schools, playing music with the Bread and Puppet Theater, and working as a wilderness camp director. She later lived in Italy and then settled in the Pacific Northwest, where she taught writing, earned an MFA from the University of Washington, and ventured into the mountains in both summer and winter. She taught middle school for fourteen years, then taught in China for eleven years, and Malta for two. Now retired, Anne lives on Whidbey Island, where she writes, hikes, and bikes. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, New Letters, and The Dolomite Review.
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