Carved Like Runes: Poems

Jan Bowman

ISBN 10: 1932688099 / ISBN 13: 9781932688092

Published by Lutheran University Press, Minneapolis, 2005

About this Item

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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Carved Like Runes: Poems
• Publisher: Lutheran University Press, Minneapolis
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1932688099
• ISBN 13: 9781932688092
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued
• Dimensions: Octavo ~23 cm / 9" tall Octavo, Approximately 23 centimetres, or 9 inches tall
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Poetry

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Synopsis

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.

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.