Laurie Kuntz

Broschiertes Buch

The Moon Over My Mother's House

Beschreibung

A collection of prize winning poetry, The Moon Over My Mother's House, explores family, aging, enduring and bittersweet love, loss, and connections. The poet ponders how the natural world reflects human nature. The poet muses on her original axiom that every poem is a journey, every journey, a poem. Poems such as Waving Not Drowning (featured on LKMNDS Podcast), Infinite Tenderness (Featured in Roanoke Review's 50th Year Anthology), Self Portrait (Nominated for Best of the Net), and Darnella's Duty (Selected for Black Lives Matter Anthology) depict various types of self awareness journeys. The titular poem, The Moon Over My Mother's House has been selected by Moment Poetry to be produced as a broadside. The story behind this poem is a reflection on every woman's journey: "The Moon Over My Mother's House is based on an early childhood memory. I must have been five or six, and I was in the kitchen watching my mother take clothes out of the washing machine and hanging them on the clothesline. The clothesline seemed to touch the sky, and I thought I saw God watching us. When I told my mother that I saw God, she replied that one can never see God. I thought her answer was so sad. This poem attempts to recognize the many women, who because of societal restrictions, live with no hope of seeing their inner god."

Autor

Laurie Kuntz is an award-winning poet and film producer. She has published one poetry collection (Somewhere in the Telling, Mellen Press) and two chapbooks (Simple Gestures, Texas Review Press and Women at the Onsen, Blue Light Press), as well as an ESL reader (The New Arrival, Books 1 & 2, Prentice Hall Publishers). Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and The Best of the Net. Her chapbook, Simple Gestures, won the Texas Review Poetry Chapbook Contest. She is a researcher for the upcoming film, Strangers to Peace, a documentary on the peace process and reintegration of guerrilla soldiers in Colombia. She produced the short film Do Tell a documentary on the repeal of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Law. She is the executive producer of an Emmy winning short narrative film, Posthumous. She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. Recently retired, she lives in an endless summer state of mind. Her website is: https://lauriekuntz.myportfolio.com/home-1

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Finishing Line Press
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 170g
• ISBN-13: 9781646625369
• ISBN-10: 1646625366
• Artikelnr.: 62276350