The Language of Stone: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780999833469)

Joan Dobbie began writing her "stone poems" in 1997 when the late Irish poet, Noelle Vial, conducting a Eugene Oregon poetry workshop, gave "Stone/Isolation"(verbally: "stone-slash-isolation") as a writing prompt. This triggered something like a geyser of "stone poems" that kept leaping out of Joan's brain into her computer where they rumbled and roiled for a couple of decades to finally burst out through some long brewing fault in her psyche into this book. These myth-like poems hone in on various facets of life in a troubled relationship through the sharp, unbending, spotlight of stone. Some of the poems are actually funny, some utterly serious. Some have a kind of twisted fairytale quality. All strike deep. In their wake, a reader might never see either "stone" or "isolation" or in fact much of anything else in quite the same way.

Author: Laura Lehew,Joan Dobbie
ISBN-10: 0999833464
ISBN-13: 9780999833469
Publisher: Uttered Chaos
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2019
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.21d