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This collection of poems reads like one poem, a rich, complex set of wise meditations. With courage, vulnerability, and wit, Jan Bowman celebrates creation, probes the aching of age, and wonders at the "shining" of grief. She renders the ordinary and the extraordinary beauty and bounty of life—with all its griefs, graces, and glories—into words that touch the heart, and the spirit, and illuminate the longing of us all. She captures our very personal and the very universal life experiences.
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About the Author
Jan Bowman is Professor Emeritus of English at California Lutheran University. She is an immigrant daughter, a wife, a mother, and a grandmother. She grew up in the Midwest where she began writing poetry at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois. She, and her family, moved to California in 1969.
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Jan captures in words the very personal and very universal life experiences that many people cannot speak. -- Dr. Pamela Jolicoeur, President Concordia College
Jan's extraordinary poem journey takes us along memory's sun-dappled lanes as well as through the shadowy valleys. -- Congresswoman Lois Capps
Read this book and you’ll do what I did—you’ll read it again. -- John Ruff, poetry editor, The Cresset
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- PublisherKirk House Pub
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1932688099
- ISBN 13 9781932688092
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages72
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Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. Signed first edition. trade softcover. Published Minneapolis: Lutheran University Press, 2005. 8vo. wrappers. This collection of poems reads like one poem, a rich, complex set of wise meditations. With courage, vulnerability, and wit, Jan Bowman celebrates creation, probes the aching of age, and wonders at the "shining" of grief. She renders the ordinary and the extraordinary beauty and bounty of life - with all its griefs, graces, and glories - into words that touch the heart, and the spirit, and illuminate the longing of us all. She captures our very personal and the very universal life experiences. Inscribed by author on title page. Fine. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 008308
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CARVED LIKE RUNES : Poems
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Soft cover. Condition: NEW - COLLECTIBLE. First Edition, First Thus. BRAND NEW Copy. First Edition, First Thus. Author signed. Anthology of free verse. A journey through life. In the volume, Jan Bowman, Professor Emeritus of English at California Lutheran Univ. remembers her father's move from Sweden to America, hence meaningfull reference to the engraved stones of Rune, and, to her own move to the mid-sixties, how warm bath bubbles ease "old hip, new knee/neck nearly fossilized . warmth swirls/bubbles eases". Eloquent and gentle thoughts on life and the passage of time. Author Signed. Seller Inventory # 019707
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