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Ekphrastics & Eccentricities
In this collection, Reed pays attention. Her lines and stanzas are thoughtful and build image-by-image, sound-by sound. Words live next to each other, sometimes jostling each other, and each is placed specifically to create a language picture peppered and even alive with alliterations. These lines are assembled with clusters of images and thoughts to capture the reader in ekphrastic embrace.
—Marc Janssen, Poet, Author of November Reconsidered
In previous poems, we are at the meeting place between poetry and dream, the convergence of mind and heart, the rendezvous where language inhales the inexpressible, and exhales words. What is the path from the “crucible of silence” to the open arena of understanding? Reed charts that path with texts that conjure the way music will open doors for you into new realms of apprehension. You will not be the same after you have seen, through the lens of these poems.
—Kim Stafford, Author of Singer Come from Afar
The poet’s subjects are art and the art of living according to eccentricities, and her manner of expressing and offering such experiences to readers is itself artful. Her poetry is intricately visual with the hum of life behind it; it leads us to the flame at the center of things—the lines are intense, precise, allusive, and full of insights of the soul. Clearly built upon a clear knowledge of the history of the poetic form, this variegated collection of poetry engages intellect and emotion alike.
—Sakina B. Fakhri, Author of The Speech of Flowers and Voiceless Things and A Ballet in Prose
—Marc Janssen, Poet, Author of November Reconsidered
In previous poems, we are at the meeting place between poetry and dream, the convergence of mind and heart, the rendezvous where language inhales the inexpressible, and exhales words. What is the path from the “crucible of silence” to the open arena of understanding? Reed charts that path with texts that conjure the way music will open doors for you into new realms of apprehension. You will not be the same after you have seen, through the lens of these poems.
—Kim Stafford, Author of Singer Come from Afar
The poet’s subjects are art and the art of living according to eccentricities, and her manner of expressing and offering such experiences to readers is itself artful. Her poetry is intricately visual with the hum of life behind it; it leads us to the flame at the center of things—the lines are intense, precise, allusive, and full of insights of the soul. Clearly built upon a clear knowledge of the history of the poetic form, this variegated collection of poetry engages intellect and emotion alike.
—Sakina B. Fakhri, Author of The Speech of Flowers and Voiceless Things and A Ballet in Prose
72 pages, Paperback
Published July 9, 2023
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