Flying In Water [Paperback]

Barbara Tomash (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1933132574 | ISBN-13: 978-1933132570 | Publication Date: December 15, 2007

Single author collection of Poetry.

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About the Author

Barbara Tomash was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Los Angeles. She worked extensively as a multimedia artist before her creative interests turned her toward writing. In 1998, she received her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, where she now teaches. Her poetry has appeared widely in literary journals, including New American Writing, Colorado Review, and ZYZZYVA. Ms. Tomash is currenly working on a collaborative project with the New York filmmaker and photographer Sokhi Wagner for a limited edition publication by Spuyten Duyvil Press. Her poetry collection THE SECRET OF WHITE will be released in 2007, also by Spuyten Duyvil. She lives in Berkeley, California with her husband and son.

Product Details

• Paperback: 65 pages
• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil (December 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933132574
• ISBN-13: 978-1933132570
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,405,511 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars perception and language and consciousness, March 21, 2007

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Ms. Nona M. Caspers (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flying in Water (Paperback)

The long poem Flying in Water is a delightful read. Edward Smallfield says in his high praise on the back of the book the following: "Here, there is no firm line of demarcation between language and consciousness or between either and the facts of life that elude both." Language in Flying in Water is used to track perception as it shifts and eludes--we are brought into seeing itself and we are brought into an interior life without seeing--what we perceive when direct image is cancelled out: "She closes her eyes sensing how she is contained/A mollusk in a too small shell" There is a sense of exploration with this character "she"--a universal voyage that is deeply satisfying. While reading the poems--prose poems really--one can feel one's own tenuous presence -- one's own body and mind moving through the minutes. How can looking so closely and constructing existance with language feel so rich and reassuring? We are all flying in water when it comes to language and capturing consciousness, capturing uncapturable reality. This book rather than trying to capture it, invites its ever shifting terraine. So rich, so well written!