"We really enjoy your use of imagery, descriptive language and insight."--Pat Swenson, Editor Emeritus, AVOCET, A JOURNAL OF NATURE POEMS "Besides being wonderful poems they have an undercurrent, sometimes a flood-tide of sensuality, Eros and Thanatos, which gives the book a life above and beyond the beautiful words."--George Spencer, Co-host of ABC No Rio
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Mary Orovan was Features Editor of US CAMERA MAGAZINE, and taught in the Humanities Department at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY. Her poems have appeared in AVOCET, A JOURNAL OF NATURE POEMS, as well as in AMOSKEAG, THE FOURTH RIVER, FRESHWATER, HIDDEN OAK, MAIN CHANNEL VOICES, 13TH MOON and the two peace anthologies, POETRY FOR PEACE (SandStar Publications, 2002) and ECHOES FROM THE HEART, edited by Tycho Thal for the Twin Towers Orphan Fund, 2003.
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Mary Orovan has new poems in Poetry East, Illya's Honey, as well as work in The Fourth River, Amoskeag, and other journals. She admires the work of Mary Oliver for her meaning-infused, elegant nature poems, but also the poetry of Brenda Shaughnessy for wild metaphors, original language, and sass. Orovan studied with Shaughnessy in an advanced poetry workshop at New York's Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y. Green Rain, Orovan's debut book, is in it's second printing, and has a Pushcart-nominated poem, Feathers.
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When I think about Mary Orovan's "Green Rain", I think about my recent walk through the Brooklyn Botanical Garden when I witnessed the contortion of the beech willow. On the arms of the willow that reached out to me there were initials inscribed. People came to commune and leave their mark. And thus it is with her poems, people and nature together. I felt the grandeur and the simplicity--the collision of water and color. I never stopped to think that rain can have a symbolic color until I started to peruse the pages of the book. I felt I had witnessed the sudden stop, a moment she calls "pure silence" in her poem "Timely". This poet allows us to observe what she sees in her outings and how she relates it to the most important aspects of life. When I first begin to observe, I am teased by the color I see; the textures are tactile and the aromas roseate; her poems inspire synesthesia. Then something sonic (she uses sound skillfully) becomes seismic. Suffering, and joy does "catch us after all", the title of one her poems. It spills over into everyday life. It is the way we live and the way we understand. So, of course, her story is also filled with jagged edges and offbeat paths, such as the poignant poem "White Grass", or the poem, "Feathers", in which we see the cruel ironies of nature. However, in "Pornography in the Park", it all becomes humorous, with two owls snuggling, or the red-tail hawks of Central Park who put on an "aerobatic display". I know this path of the cycles of life and death and life again. I am redirected. I am channeled. I come full circle. I am renewed by the chapbook, "Green Rain."
--Robert Gibbons
--Robert Gibbons
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Green Rain came out as perfection. I'm blown away. Each poem is a gem, and the book flows together beautifully. At first many of the poems seem as if they are only about nature, but there are layers of meaning, sometimes profound. Some of the poems are humorous, some sensual, they all teem with life, insights, lyricism, orignal language and metaphor. This is a book you'll want to reread.
Karen Ethelsdattar
Karen Ethelsdattar
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Green Rain is a funny, sexy and profound book of poetry. As a Central Park daily dog walker I recognized many of her poems inspired by the park.I found may layers of meaning within the words and images. The poems were thought provoking and clever.I thoroughly enjoyed this small volume and highly recommend it.
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