The House of Metaphor - Cranston, Pamela
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The poems in Pamela Cranston's The House of Metaphor are an intoxicating blend of spirit, edginess, gravity, play, and paradox, gifts we are given from a mind having what Einstein called ""a holy curiosity."" With subjects ranging from singing potatoes to angels and assassins, slave and master to moving recollections of her own childhood and her experience as a priest ministering to hospice patients, the book pulsates nonstop with the poet's vigor and variety, powered through her boundless imagination and lyrical intensity. Everywhere are surprises, and Cranston's choice words and marvelous metaphors seem to have been joyfully plucked from the heavens.…mehr

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The poems in Pamela Cranston's The House of Metaphor are an intoxicating blend of spirit, edginess, gravity, play, and paradox, gifts we are given from a mind having what Einstein called ""a holy curiosity."" With subjects ranging from singing potatoes to angels and assassins, slave and master to moving recollections of her own childhood and her experience as a priest ministering to hospice patients, the book pulsates nonstop with the poet's vigor and variety, powered through her boundless imagination and lyrical intensity. Everywhere are surprises, and Cranston's choice words and marvelous metaphors seem to have been joyfully plucked from the heavens.
Autorenporträt
Pamela Cranston is a retired Episcopal priest who has served parishes and hospices in the San Francisco Bay Area for over thirty-three years. She has written three books: The Madonna Murders (2003), Coming to Treeline: Adirondack Poems (2005), and Searching for Nova Albion (2019). She is a prize-winning poet whose work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies such as Blueline, Crosswinds Poetry, and Windhover. She lives in Oakland, California, with her husband, Edward.