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Quilted Poems: An Ekphrastic Collaboration of Poets and Quilters by Kathleen P. Decker | BookBaby Bookshophttps://store.bookbaby.com/book/quilted-poemsQuilted Poems was created by an ekphrastic collaboration of poets from the Poetry Society of Virginia, and quilters from Virginia. Ekphrastic is Greek for to describe or explain. The quilts in this book visually describe poems written to inspire quilters. It contains 65 poems and images of 45 quilts. Some of the quilts were designed as concrete representations of the quilter's chosen poem, others used abstract symbols or abstract quilt block designs. The poems address various subjects including nature, the process of quilting and quilters, and spirituality. This unique book is a wondrous melding of visual and literary art. While each poem and quilt can be viewed and appraised individually, your original perspective is further enhanced or shifted askew when merging the two mediums. This careful pairing of images and words creates an artistic synergy that is a treat to behold. —Bill Glose, author of Postscript to War, Virginia Walkabout, Personal Geography, Half a Man, and The Human Touch All that we piece together from threads and fragments, stories and words— surely, work that bears the signatures of time and love. We are grateful for the poets and quilters who give us an abundance of such gifts through this anthology. —Luisa A. Igloria, 20th Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of VirginiaPaperback

Collected Winning Poems from The Poetry Society of Virginia: 2023 by The Poetry Society of Virginia | BookBaby Bookshophttps://store.bookbaby.com/book/collected-winning-poems-from-the-poetry-society-of-virginiaEach year the Poetry Society of Virginia sponsors contests in 25 categories, covering traditional forms of poetry, free verse, and effective 2023, spoken-word/verse video performance. Some of the categories with structured verse include: sonnets, limericks, and ekphrastic poems. Many of the categories include themes, such as: friendship, farm life, women, fatherhood, technology, nature, historical events, lyrical, and narrative poems. Some categories are open to poems in any style, with any theme. The book is not only a delight to read, but provides examples of outstanding poems that poets may use as inspiration to write their own prize-winning poems in future contests. This book is a compendium of the first and second-place prize-winning poems from the 2023 Poetry Society of Virginia. This book is especially significant because this is the Centennial year for the Poetry Society of Virginia. If only we could travel back for a long Sunday afternoon in 1923 and meet our founders—how thrilled they would be by how far we've come. How they would love to read these poems!Paperback

Angels and Demons: The Poetry of Mohsen Namjoo - Book 1 by Reza Arefi | BookBaby Bookshophttps://store.bookbaby.com/book/angelsanddemonsFrom Introduction:He observed firsthand that in the quilted society of the time, human values were mere mirages that quickly disappeared as clouds of hardship and devastation drifted in. Many of the diverging and multipolar aspects of the society he lived in are evident in his poems—melancholy, ruined hopes, broken hearts, social defeat and ever-present shadow of poverty and desolation. Perhaps it is the presence of these or similar themes, common in many regions, that has made Mohsen's works relatable by many of his generation in other parts of the world.Mohsen's poems are an honest narration of the sufferings of his generation forgotten in the intersection of the old and the new. From Translator's Note:In translating this selection of poems, at times I felt as if I am walking a third, thus illegitimate, path other than those endorsed by Borges, namely, literal and recreation. Mohsen's poems are generally not categorized as visual due to his fascination with form and rhythm. If they were, I would have probably had no choice other than to recreate. But despite painting images being a rarity, his playful ways with words pull the reader's mind in different, often opposite, directions—"centrifugal, centripetal" as William Carlos Williams suggests—thereby opening singular spaces that cannot be quickly filled with the next thought or image, as if leaving a lasting bas relief of amazement. It is for this reason that Borges's paradox could perhaps be avoided without the need to dismantle and dissect the poems through recreation. There was certainly no shortage of opportunities to create beautiful strangeness and stunning singularities by being literal. But to my delight, Mohsen's special playfulness with form allowed for the occasional reach to stain my brush with familiar hues on the palette of recreating context.Paperback

Views of Virginia by Kathleen P. Decker, MD | BookBaby Bookshophttps://store.bookbaby.com/book/views-of-virginiaViews of Virginia was conceived as a reverse ekphrastic project to prompt Virginia poets to express their views usings visual imagery, colorful descriptions, and evocative images. Any subject was open for poetry and art as long as it had to do with celebrating Virginia. Inside you will find poems paired with drawings, paintings, photos, and quilts. Members of the Poetry Society of Virginia submitted poems for this anthology and we invited gifted high school students from the Appomattox Regional Governor's School to participate as well. Twenty-one students participated and generated novel and excellent poems. Artists were recruited from local art groups in southern Virginia and two gifted youths also submitted art. The result is a fabulous amalgam of beauty and ugliness, despair and hope, defacement and creation, love and philosophy, history and identity, angst and transcendence. It illustrates the burden and shame of slavery, the beauty and bounty inherited from the natives whose land the Europeans took and the legacy we have been given, the flora and fauna of the Shenandoah Valley and Blue Ridge Mountains, the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean, the struggles of inner city evolution (and sometimes, devolution), the coming-of-age of politics and Civil War events, up to the defacement and removal of said war hero statues. It also includes poems that honor ancestors who fought on both sides of the Civil War and familial connection to the land that Virginian's love.Paperback

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