Barbara Pelman (31 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Good. These poems, spare and nuanced, explore the borrowed rooms we inhabit in personal relationships: the temporary homes of marriage and parenting; the personas we carry for a little while and must ultimately abandon. In tight and unsentimental poems, Barbara Pelman grieves the death of a father, notes the changing dynamics of mothers and daughters, watches the doors irrevocably close on a marriage, and delights in the temporal beauty surrounding her: the simple splendour of garry oak and hawthorn, arbutus branches bent to the shape of wind, and the stutter of shoreline. The idea of a borrowed room finds expression in Pelman's deft use of form: she writes sonnets, sestinas, ghazals and glosas borrowed from ancient Persia and Renaissance Italy that surprise us with their intensity and tactile clarity. The image of a borrowed room has other implications: from the window of the unfamiliar, her perspective on the familiar changes - her poems glimpse a Zen garden of star magnolia and early daffodil, islands drifting in a new sea, the rain shining the bones of trees on the beach - a sense, finally, of home. As she tells us in the final poem, you do not know where you are until you are there, and even then, only time seems to have moved.…

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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Flat-signed by author to the title page. A Very Good copy with light shelfwear and an uncreased spine. Internally clean and free of markings. // 'These lyrical poems map one woman's life after her exodus from a twenty year marriage. Pelman takes this all-too-common sorrow and places it in the natural world, as if only juncos, mice, crickets and robins can understand. The poems trace a reconstruction of self from a narrow, limited space through a metaphorical desert towards joy.' -- publisher.…

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Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. From the private library of noted poet Richard Osler, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page. A Near Fine copy with minimal shelfwear and an uncreased spine. Internally clean and free of markings. // '' All the world is a narrow bridge,' states Rabbi Nachman of Bresnov. ' The important thing is not to be afraid at all.' These poems, Barbara Pelman's third collection, explore bridges both real and metaphoric: the bridge connecting Denmark to Sweden where her family lives; the bridges she has travelled across Europe; and the bridges we build through words and actions to overcome our separateness from one another. The poet writes about lovers, mothers, daughters, ex-husbands, grandchildren, and her attempts to construct solid foundations for the heart to travel easily across time and space. Pelman writes of her love of landscapes and the things in them, and the everyday epiphanies that happen in one's backyard. These are poems that explore the tension between living in one place but wanting to be in another, the losses and freedoms contained in solitude, the process of learning to age gracefully. The act of writing, Pelman says, is itself a talisman against fear, a mantra of boldness and courage to live con spirito.' -- publisher.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Born out of waiting out the lockdown during the early days of the pandemic, Barbara Pelman's A Brief and Endless Sea explores a life in retrospect, beginning with a high school typing class and ending with the Angel Purah, cutting the ties that bind a soul to a body. Many of the poems in this collection are rooted in Jewish tradition: the prophet Isaiah's words of comfort; the rabbinical story of the Lost Princess, that angel and her counterpart, the Angel Duma. Pelman takes us to difficult placesthe dissolution of a marriage, caring for a parent with dementia. But she doesn't leave us there, waiting. Using the power of words to map a route out, A Brief and Endless Sea pulls us toward life in all of its vibrant detailsthe simple beauty of a small garden of tomatoes and roses, the pleasures of teaching poetry, long walks with a grandson, and encounters with spirituality. For Pelman, there is comfort in the making of a poem and in the "smallest life you can love." Like the glosa form she turns to often, something small transforms into something larger, expansive. In A Brief and Endless Sea, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and waiting in itself presents fertile ground for hope and possibility. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Softcover. Condition: Fine in Wraps. First Edition. A new copy in fine condition. 135 pp.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Trade Paperback Original. Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Poems. 135 pages. Inscribed by author on the title page "For ___ / Thanks for supporting poetry! / Barbara / Feb 09". Signed by Author.

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Thin Trade Paperback Original. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Poems. Signed by author (signature only) on title page. 105 pages. Signed by Author.

Thin Trade Paperback Original. Condition: Near Fine Plus. First Edition. Two leaves with corner creases (to mark place). Inscribed by author on title page to fellow BC poet "To ___ / What a wonderful afternoon! Poets & poetics & the real soul work - is that not what it's all about? Hope for more - / Love, Barbara / April 06". Signed by Author. …

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Born out of the early days of the pandemic, Barbara Pelman's A Brief and Endless Sea explores the concept of ' gaps' those moments of nothingness that are paradoxically full of potential. Many of the poems are rooted in Jewish tradition: the Angel Purah who cuts the ties between soul and body; the prophet Isaiah's words of comfort; the concept of ' Tsimtsum,' a withdrawal in order to create space for something new. The poems reach toward a potential built from seeming emptiness; Pelman mines the depths, taking us to difficult places-- the dissolution of a marriage, caring for a parent with dementia. But she doesn't leave us there, waiting. Using the power of words to map a route out, A Brief and Endless Sea pulls us toward life in all of its vibrant details-- the simple beauty of a small garden, the pleasures of teaching, long walks with a grandson, and encounters with spirituality. For Pelman, there is comfort in the ' smallest life you can love.' Like the glosa form she turns to often, something small transforms into something larger, expansive. In A Brief and Endless Sea, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and waiting in itself presents fertile ground for hope and possibility.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Born out of waiting out the lockdown during the early days of the pandemic, Barbara Pelman's A Brief and Endless Sea explores a life in retrospect, beginning with a high school typing class and ending with the Angel Purah, cutting the ties that bind a soul to a body. Many of the poems in this collection are rooted in Jewish tradition: the prophet Isaiah's words of comfort; the rabbinical story of the Lost Princess, that angel and her counterpart, the Angel Duma. Pelman takes us to difficult placesthe dissolution of a marriage, caring for a parent with dementia. But she doesn't leave us there, waiting. Using the power of words to map a route out, A Brief and Endless Sea pulls us toward life in all of its vibrant detailsthe simple beauty of a small garden of tomatoes and roses, the pleasures of teaching poetry, long walks with a grandson, and encounters with spirituality. For Pelman, there is comfort in the making of a poem and in the "smallest life you can love." Like the glosa form she turns to often, something small transforms into something larger, expansive. In A Brief and Endless Sea, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and waiting in itself presents fertile ground for hope and possibility. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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