The Red Canoe - Emmons, Jeanne
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In Jeanne Emmons's poetry collection, The Red Canoe, the canoe becomes a mode of both transportation and transformation and a metaphor for the mystery of the poetic imagination. The poems move between the point of view of the poet who owns the canoe and the consciousness of the canoe itself as it glides on the lake, bumps against the dock it is tied to, or lies on the bank beneath a blanket of snow. The canoe becomes an eye, ear, and mouth by which the world is perceived, taking in the seasons in succession and ruminating on its own limitations and dreams. Like the spider's web that forms in…mehr

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In Jeanne Emmons's poetry collection, The Red Canoe, the canoe becomes a mode of both transportation and transformation and a metaphor for the mystery of the poetic imagination. The poems move between the point of view of the poet who owns the canoe and the consciousness of the canoe itself as it glides on the lake, bumps against the dock it is tied to, or lies on the bank beneath a blanket of snow. The canoe becomes an eye, ear, and mouth by which the world is perceived, taking in the seasons in succession and ruminating on its own limitations and dreams. Like the spider's web that forms in the canoe overnight, the canoe is a trembling net, ready to catch "the least sailing mayfly of possibility" that might become caught in its consciousness. The canoe craves recognition and attention, flirting like Marilyn Monroe, and smiling like a lipsticked mouth. But it also feels overexposed and wants to withdraw and retreat from the honking geese that surround it. Aware of how conspicuous it is within the muted colors of the natural landscape, it wishes not to be red, much as its poet owner is wary of being "read." The canoe is alone, yet it is half aware of an unseen force paddling it. It desires to be free, even as it knows that its very nature implies limitations. The canoe questions its urge to transmute reality, "does not know/ why everything has to be compared to be/ fully grasped," but is unable to stop itself from engaging in a "tangle of connections." The red canoe gradually emerges as a metaphor for consciousness itself and for not only the poetic imagination but also the human condition - aspiring, limited, and self-aware.
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Jeanne Emmons was born in Louisiana and raised in Texas, where she received her PhD in English from the University of Texas. After moving to Iowa with her husband, she taught English and Creative Writing at Briar Cliff University and raised two children. Her move to South Dakota to live on McCook Lake and her experiences paddling her canoe formed the inspiration for these poems. In addition to The Red Canoe, Jeanne Emmons has published three full-length collections: The Glove of the World (2006), winner of the Backwaters Press Reader's Choice Award; Baseball Nights and DDT ( (Pecan Grove Press, 2005), and Rootbound (1998), winner of the New Rivers Press Minnesota Voices Competition. She has won the Comstock poetry prize, the James Hearst Poetry Award, and the Sow's Ear poetry award, among others. Her work has appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, The American Scholar, The Carolina Quarterly, Louisiana Literature, The North American Review, The South Carolina Review, Prairie Schooner, The River Styx, The South Dakota Review, and many other journals. She is poetry editor of the Briar Cliff Review.