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The Missing Angle
THIS COLLECTION explores the theme of longing in today's fast-moving global world where sentiments are relegated as vintage. Words that took years, months, weeks, and days to get from one partner to the other now fly through in seconds with technology. How does that alter and morph our perspective on love, our perception of the world around us? The author navigates from ancient emotions to the 'modern' feelings probed in her poems. This selection of poems is also a tribute in gratitude to the kindness and openness of the contemporary Greek
poets the author is involved with via her Athenian poetry society, A Poets' Agora.
poets the author is involved with via her Athenian poetry society, A Poets' Agora.
102 pages, ebook
Published December 15, 2019
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March 11, 2020
Not simply a read. An experience. The author joins the threads of seemingly diametrically opposite worlds and leaves one with that element that transgresses time and space and takes us 'home'- our humanity. This a personal trans-personal impersonal journey through pages posing questions and depicting truths for mankind everywhere today.
March 23, 2020
An intricately, interwoven journey. Exuding an ethereal yet pragmatic commentary on all that encompasses the multitude of emotions and indelible experiences lived in this time of globalization, one travels literally and figuratively through a world of quantum entanglement. A quest, sending one’s very identity spinning - connecting the dots of what it means to be human. The author gathers shards then astutely relinquishes them, allowing an ineffable essence to persist.
May 27, 2020
It’s impressive how the mythical and literary past draws close and reaches us, not only as knowledge, but also as experience, something projected and incorporated in our everyday lives. With the crystal-clear vividness of ekphrasis, Karine Ancellin both describes and narrates, and her love of Greece becomes a modus vivendi, a positive proposition; although disenchanted with the modern world, its wrongs and complications, she seldom sounds negative. While reading, one sees the gaze altering the landscape – or rather multiple gazes, multiple angles. Love becomes a canvas that can accommodate any kind of subject, with a full use of the English verse as a rhyming adventure and a delicate pace. The book uniquely expresses the human sensitivity in the digital age and all the confusion of the globalised world; even in the immateriality of the electronic medium, there's place for the tangible survival of the past, there's refreshing originality in the treatment of Greek myths, allowing us to mirror ourselves in the archetypes, there are sombre moments of mourning, there the present as it happens, with its impact on us, the reception of unfolding history and the commentary to this reception, there's personal identity as something containing multitudes and vital contradictions. One feels as if treading on freshly sown soil, full with promises of fruit and flower, and also with the underlying depth of geological layers to be discerned and examined, every line another layer, every poem a self-contained space holding in itself an array of emotions, sentiments and moods.
January 1, 2020
EDITORIAL REVIEWS:
“Ancellin’s poems grapple with planetary paths and eBay, with ancient myth and the pixellated Skype screen, with caryatids and the trials of life as a permanent foreigner. The virtual and the concrete merge in the Greek landscape, where shard-like glimpses are revealed of passionate love and loss.”
– SOKA ZINOVIEFF, AUTHOR OF “PUTNEY”
“This is a richly rewarding collection—complete with latter-day, disjointed yet insistent rhymes—by a master-craftswoman wielding the very potent weapon that International English has become.”
– ORFEAS APERGIS, POET AND ESSAYIST
“Ancellin’s poems grapple with planetary paths and eBay, with ancient myth and the pixellated Skype screen, with caryatids and the trials of life as a permanent foreigner. The virtual and the concrete merge in the Greek landscape, where shard-like glimpses are revealed of passionate love and loss.”
– SOKA ZINOVIEFF, AUTHOR OF “PUTNEY”
“This is a richly rewarding collection—complete with latter-day, disjointed yet insistent rhymes—by a master-craftswoman wielding the very potent weapon that International English has become.”
– ORFEAS APERGIS, POET AND ESSAYIST
June 8, 2020
THE MISSING ANGLE, by Karine Leno Ancellin, has attracted me from the moment, I touched its rubbery cover. The title already promises the subtility of Ancellin's approach: we have to guess, how much she longs for her soul sister...
This book one day will be remembered as a landmark of those times of virtual globalisation, and the way it reacted on human feelings.
Citizen of the world, Ancellin's restless mind nevertheles seems to have found a shelter in Greece, diving into the deep, silent water of history, and at times, into the heavy waves of present day's events.
This book one day will be remembered as a landmark of those times of virtual globalisation, and the way it reacted on human feelings.
Citizen of the world, Ancellin's restless mind nevertheles seems to have found a shelter in Greece, diving into the deep, silent water of history, and at times, into the heavy waves of present day's events.
December 4, 2020
Karine Leno Ancellin's poems touch a spectrum of themes - love, eros, longing, humans, society. Reading The Missing Angle, I felt that each single word was selected with the care of an expertise, treasuring a higher meaning, searching a deeper truth, from the ancient gods to the modern world.
I loved it.
I loved it.
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