The Logic of Wings [Paperback]

Vanessa Haley (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 92 pages
• Publisher: WordTech Communications (March 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932339086
• ISBN-13: 978-1932339086
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,530,934 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Vanessa Haley, an award-winning poet and formerly Associate Professor of English at the University of Mary Washington, is also a licensed clinical social worker who has practiced psychotherapy for 11 years. She is the author of a collection of poetry, The Logic of Wings, as well as an Instructor's Manual for Fictions (Harcourt College Texts). Her poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Southern Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Sojourner, and Alaska Quarterly Review; and in anthologies, including Reading Poetry: An Anthology of Poems (Random House). Her essay, "How I Learned to Count to Four and Live with the Ghosts of Animals" was included in Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008). After recently teaching for two years at a college preparatory high school, she has devoted herself to developing secondary English curriculum BOX SETS to provide intellectually stimulating & fun lesson plans and activities for classroom use. Her handmade board games are designed to integrate right brain/left brain processing of literary works. She invites you to visit her web site at www.PlayGamestoLearn.com.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My college English Prof, May 25, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The Logic of Wings (Paperback)

Vanessa taught me creative writing at Virginia Commonwealth University in the 1980's. Her writing has a knack for making the reader feel that she is reflecting your own feelings back to you. A worthy read for a poetry lover.

If you read this, Vanessa, feel free to email me: [e-mail].

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring First Collection, February 27, 2005

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Margaret Jerome (Bear, DE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Logic of Wings (Paperback)

I found the collection touched so many facets of our everyday experience. My favorite poem, "Home" reminded me of times long past. I felt the joy mixed with disappointment and confusion of returning to the scene of youth, perhaps imagining what would be the same and what might have changed. Then, the sadness mixed with intrigue of the progress and stillness of time. The images and feelings tug at the heart and inspire at the same time. A wonderful first collection.

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5.0 out of 5 stars If these wings have logic, they also contain intense beauty., September 2, 2004

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Alice Walls "poetryfan" (mid-atlantic) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Logic of Wings (Paperback)

What surprises and delights in these poems is the unsentimental look at that which normally shakes us to the core and causes us to avert our eyes: a horse left to stiffen in the freezing snow; the deer, just shot, "Swallowing all sunlight" to disappear; the snapping turtle, "a lost ancient," decapitated by an oblivious father; Atlantic City's diving horse, "prodded into false flight, its abuse so routine, it goes through the motions like the blind stepping tentatively in a lightless world." While these poems read with prosaic ease, the technical skill of careful rhyme schemes and lovely sounds and rhythms render them accomplished without the strain of linguistic gymnastics or pedantry. The sequences (on Anna Pavlova, the "Mother" and entomology) as well as occasional deviations from formal poems ("Dysthymia") render this collection an impressive achievement.