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Jean Wiebe Janzen was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, raised in the midwestern United States, and now lives in Fresno, California. She completed her undergraduate studies at Fresno Pacific College and received a master of arts at California State University of Fresno. She has won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and other awards. Her previous books are Words for the Silence (1984), Three Mennonite Poets (1986), and The Upside-Down Tree (1992).
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Where Physical and Spiritual Meet,
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This review is from: Paper House: Poems (Paperback)
In Jean Janzen's most mature work to date, she presses deeper than ever into both the physical and spiritual worlds. These worlds merge in her childhood memories of the rural Midwest--Christmas Eve in a schoolhouse of "fresh cedar / and damp wool, the silence of unlit / candles." There it is that her small body is "held against the warm, / familiar beat, 'I am, I am.'" From here it is the small distance of a lifetime to her current residence in the Central Valley of California, where, in her "Instructions for Advent," we are told, "Then light the candles, and as / you sing, snowflakes gather / high in the Sierra, each one / holding light as it falls." The title poem, "Paper House," is worth the price of the whole book. As the speaker contemplates a lifetime of marriage that must one day end, the things of this world grow insubstantial: "Here is the table of coming and going. / Here is the bed of beginning and ending." The poetry shimmers in a way that reminds one of Shakespeare at his most reflective in The Tempest.
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