Paradise Found: Poems - Softcover

Vail, Lorraine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595437729 ISBN 13: 9780595437726

Publisher: iUniverse, 2007

Synopsis

The quietly triumphant poems in Lorraine Vail's Paradise Found take the reader from island to island, Eden to Eden, disclosing the paradises both within us and without us, both immediate and distant. These sharp, finely-wrought, and accessible lyrics are performed by a poet in full command of her considerable talents. Guiding us to these necessary boundaries, between our interior selves and the world outside of us, between land and water, between wife and husband, between mother and daughter, Vail shows us the gifts that are available to us all-if only we pay attention, if only we praise the everyday and the ordinary before us. "The marvel of this book is that Vail does not ignore in her meditations the relief against which they rest: war and poverty are all too close. Thus, Vail's poetry affirms this absolute necessity of making ourselves open to the world: if we have any hope of finding paradise, she wisely reminds us, we must learn to find ourselves first." James Brockauthor of Pictures That Got Small"Lorraine Vail is one of the most elegant and eloquent poets writing today. With compassion and shrewd, insightful observations, she unwraps each of our everyday worlds. As if that wasn't enough, she is also a metric master, turning out villanelles and sestinas at will." Sidney B. Simon, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Author of Values Clarification, Getting Unstuck and Negative Criticism

About this title

About the Author

Lorraine A. Vail received two Geraldine R. Dodge Grants in poetry and is published in numerous journals. Her poems were awarded first place from Anthology Magazine and from Gulf Coast Writers Association. She is the author of Between Land and Sea and Near Water. She calls Sanibel Island, Flordia home and spends summers in Ocean City, New Jersey.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595437729
• ISBN 13: 9780595437726
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102