"Bound by Red Clay" chronicles growing up in the '60s in rural Georgia. Author Stoller is an internation award winning poet who has published her poetry in many journals and magazines, both in hard copy and on the Internet. This is her first book of poetry.
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Stoller's voice is a new southern voice which speaks with all the grace and poise of the best qualities and traditions of the South. She is, as her title indicates, bound to the soil. Stoller is kin to Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and William Faulkner--if not by blood, then certainly by tradition. She introduces us to cousins, to siblings, to parents, and to children. Neca Stoller speaks per force out of her southern heritage and experience with her own southern voice, but as those in her tradition before her have done, her voice transcends these sources to profoundly universal human dimensions. ---Ben Bohnhorst, Ed.D., Professor Emeritus, College of Education, Michigan State Univesity -- Publisher Comments
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Neca Stoller is a native of Savannah, GA and graduated from the University of Georgia with a BA degree in economics. She worked for a regional planning commission after graduation. Later, Stoller helped draft her county's first planning ordinances and served as co-chair of the County Planning Commission. Coming of age in the '60s left its mark. Stoller began her freshman year at the university's first integrated class. After years of living in a metropolitan area, Stoller and her family moved to a rural area to raise cattle. It was here she began writing poetry. Recently, Stoller and her family returned to urban living.
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She illuminates the secret innerlandscape of the human self.,
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This review is from: Bound by Red Clay (Hardcover)
Neca Stoller writes with a miraculous and uncommon flair for language. She makes of her poems a place of the heart. Her work is the stuff of modern poetry. The superior fiction that Wallace Stevens would have found to his liking. She supremely illuminates with rich descriptive clarity both nature and the landscape of the human self, never casting a cold eye on her subject. Rather her poetry simmers in the underbrush of passion, story and affinity for her subject matter.Neca Stoller continues to represent the brightest of her generation. Any work that bears her name fulfills the role of the nature poet and serves the reader twicefold. She is among the most satisfying prose poets writing in America today. In new and exciting ways, she more than any other contemporary southern poet consistently astounds --- her refreshing metaphors shimmer with verve, buoyancy, her style engaging, tenderly rendering the innerself which serves to buoy the spirit of the reader. She has a keen sensibility. With the publication of "Bound by Red Clay," Neca Stoller has made herself once again conspicuous. She has traveled the far lands of her imagination and returned with a bounty of good poems. Making good on the promise of her earlier talents. This book is one to read by the bright light of one's soul, that flame rekindled by her fine work.
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Award notable book!,
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This review is from: Bound by Red Clay (Hardcover)
"Bound by Red Clay" continues to astound the contemporary poetry market! It has been nominated for these awards: Georgia Writers Inc. Book of the Year--Poetry Category, Tufts Discovery Award, and the poem "Gopher Tortoise" was nominated for the coveted Pushcart Prize. The first run sold out in 6 months, and the second printing has sold 50% in only a month. Neca Stoller's work is indeed slated to become one of America's best.
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Neca Stoller's work transcends national borders,
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This review is from: Bound by Red Clay (Hardcover)
When I ordered Neca Stoller's book I wondered if the high standard I had admired in examples of her work I'd seen on the net would be sustained through a book. It was.My other concern was whether poetry specifically drawing on a Georgia, USA, landscape would be relevant in Australia. It was. Australian friends have validated my opinion on this. Like the book itself the poetry is spare, direct and captures the essence of her subjects. Her focus is not distracted by any vanities. The discipline of Japanese genres shines through. The poetry is strong and credible. I commend it to anyone with a sense of place and community, no matter where in the world they are centered.
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