The Spiral Sapling: The Poetry of Karen Seyfert - Karen Seyfert

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Résumé :
Karen's poetry is playful, and earnest, sometimes in the same poem. These poems can make you chuckle, or cry. She uses free verse, rhymes, songs, and tightly structured sonnets. Her poems are always accessible, Their meanings may be layered, but you won't have to spend a lot of time trying to figure them out. She writes of temptation, and loyalty, and loss, and finds inspiration in the natural world. She writes for seniors, children and adults. Her poems reveal some moments from a lifetime of paying attention. They build up a picture of a woman you might like to know. * A welcome calm comes over me when I read Karen Sayfert's poems. There are deep, still waters here, the kind that quench a thoughtful reader's thirst. There are questions answered and questions left alone. There are plainspoken moments of grief and decorative rhymes of whimsy. And everywhere, there is honesty and wonder. -Gretchen Primack, author of Kind and Visiting Days With the agility and grace of a poet in love with words, Karen Seyfert moves from the playful to the serious without missing a beat. This is a treasury of heartfelt poems. -Abigail Thomas, writer whose books include Safekeeping: A Three Dog Life and What Comes Next and How to Like It These poems waltz with words. They swoop and loop with lyricism and humor. As in the waltz, beneath the flourishes of language, there is form: rhyme, the blues, sonnets. William Wordsworth wrote: Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. Form is a vessel Karen Seyfert uses to recall and express regret, grief and love. She is a writer devoted to family, faith and the natural world. Her poems reveal an open mind, and more importantly an open and generous heart. -Kate Hymes, Founder, Wallkill Valley Writers...

Biographie:
Karen Morehead Seyfert grew to love nature and poetry on an old farm near Nashville Tennessee. While at Stanford University, she and her husband spent two summers hiking daily on and off trail in the Marble Mountain Wilderness area. After teaching in Buffalo New York, she was a state park nature interpreter at Niagara Falls. When she saw signs of her own aging, she drove to Alaska alone with her cat, to prove that she could. She writes liturgy for her church, and dreams of performing her poetry on a cross country tour. She spends summers at the family ranch outside of Yellowstone and lives in a half-acre wood in the Hudson River Valley.

Sommaire:
Karen Morehead Seyfert grew to love nature and poetry on an old farm near Nashville Tennessee. While at Stanford University, she and her husband spent two summers hiking daily on and off trail in the Marble Mountain Wilderness area. After teaching in Buffalo New York, she was a state park nature interpreter at Niagara Falls. When she saw signs of her own aging, she drove to Alaska alone with her cat, to prove that she could. She writes liturgy for her church, and dreams of performing her poetry on a cross country tour. She spends summers at the family ranch outside of Yellowstone and lives in a half-acre wood in the Hudson River Valley....