Entering Another Country
"The title poem, "Entering Another Country," is dedicated to a male friend who has died. There are exuberant, rich landscapes of imagined travel, journeys into the visual worlds of Grandma Moses and Rousseau, and the painful realization that what the poet means by travel is change and growth, the raw experience of self-birthing, a process into a place as unknown as the death place of her friend. Here Ortner connects with her female heritage. It is a courageous poem of breaking out, and the unfamiliar terrain into which this takes her almost robs the poet of speech." --Helen Cooper, Motheroot Journal
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Entering Another Country
"The title poem, "Entering Another Country," is dedicated to a male friend who has died. There are exuberant, rich landscapes of imagined travel, journeys into the visual worlds of Grandma Moses and Rousseau, and the painful realization that what the poet means by travel is change and growth, the raw experience of self-birthing, a process into a place as unknown as the death place of her friend. Here Ortner connects with her female heritage. It is a courageous poem of breaking out, and the unfamiliar terrain into which this takes her almost robs the poet of speech." --Helen Cooper, Motheroot Journal
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Entering Another Country

Entering Another Country

by Toni Ortner
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Entering Another Country

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"The title poem, "Entering Another Country," is dedicated to a male friend who has died. There are exuberant, rich landscapes of imagined travel, journeys into the visual worlds of Grandma Moses and Rousseau, and the painful realization that what the poet means by travel is change and growth, the raw experience of self-birthing, a process into a place as unknown as the death place of her friend. Here Ortner connects with her female heritage. It is a courageous poem of breaking out, and the unfamiliar terrain into which this takes her almost robs the poet of speech." --Helen Cooper, Motheroot Journal

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781504029230
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLC
Publication date: 02/23/2016
Pages: 76
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.18(d)

About the Author

Toni Ortner is a well-known contemporary poet and passionate educator with ten books published. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in over 100 literary journals. Her work has been anthologized in Moving to Antarctica (Dustbooks), True to Life Adventure Stories (Crossing Press), and American Poetry Confronts the 1990’s (Black Tie Press). She is on the faculty at the Universityof Connecticut in Stamford.
 
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