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Published by Good Books, Intercourse PA, 1986
ISBN 10: 0934672407ISBN 13: 9780934672405
Seller: THE OLD LIBRARY SHOP, Bethlehem, PA, U.S.A.
Book
Soft Cover. Condition: vg-. 9.25" tall; 120 pages including index; yellow cover; foxing top edge. Paperback.
Published by Good Books December 1986, 1986
ISBN 10: 0934672385ISBN 13: 9780934672382
Seller: BookMarx Bookstore, Steubenville, OH, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Pages are clean with no apparent marks. Binding is tight and square. Small chipping to front cover bottom dust jacket. Light shelf wear to cover. Poetry by: Jean Janzen-USA, Yorifumi Yaguchi-Japan, David Waltner-Toews-Canada. About the book This well-received collection features three poets who differ widely in culture and style, yet are rooted in common values. Yorifumi Yaguchi is a well-known Japanese poet and professor. Jean Janzen is a Fresno, California, poet whose work has appeared in many literary magazines, and David Waltner-Toews is a Canadian with several books to his credit. Why publish a collection of this sort? Poetry as an artistic endeavor has been scarce among Mennonite people through the centuries. This may be because of their conscious separation from the larger world, or their struggle as an immigrant people, or a general suspicion of the arts held by many members of the groups. The three poets in this collection are among the finest in the Mennonite peoplehood worldwide, today. The tension between their lives, their particular cultures, and their yearnings has resulted in poetry rich in imagery and full of conviction. What common themes might a woman from California, a man from eastern Canada, and another from Japan express? Perhaps most basic is an honesty, a bare-bones truthfulness, a disdain for pretense that threads through all the poems. There is also in each a sense of design in which the individual is part of a community -- a family, or a tribe, or a people. The cultivation of that embrace is life; the loss of it is crippling, and sometimes even death. One hears, as well, a wish for peace -- with one's spouse, one's past, with all the 'beasts' that beset us, both within and without. These poems reach for justice -- for both children and Grandpas who are victims, for the misunderstood who can't defend their behavior, for those alive only in our memories who can no longer explain their actions.
Published by Good Books, 1986
ISBN 10: 0934672385ISBN 13: 9780934672382
Seller: NWJbooks, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Brown & cream colored covers in a yellow & white dust jacket. 8vo, 120 pages. Dust jacket chipped on the top edge.
Published by Good Books, Intercourse, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 1986
ISBN 10: 0934672407ISBN 13: 9780934672405
Seller: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Lightly bumped and rubbed. Signed and dated by Waltner-Toews on the front free end paper. Inscribed and dated by Janzen on the half title page. Janzen also signed at the beginning of Book One, which features her poems. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Inscribed By the Author.