Vinland [Paperback]

Jamie Ross (Author)

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"Vinland assembles itself around the reader from different directions and dimensions the way the world assembles itself around an individual, through time and the trickeries of time, through weather and through thought, through experiences of many kinds, those of one person and those common to all, large experiences, and those that seem small but hold, lambs crying, or the play of light and shadow on a wall, through the rhythms of the seasons, and the rhythms of the stars, and the character of the land, mountain or no mountain, cattails exploding, or the slow fall of snow, through the ebb and flow of memory, and the convolutions of history, through fast and feast, gearshift and tuning fork, flood and drought, through numbers and through dreams, dreams of the day and dreams of the night, through the night and through the day, through the griefs that harrow us, and the visions that silence us, and the bonds of desire that bind us, first and last, lover to lover, man to the land, father to son, son to his beloved father." (Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Intro Prize Judge )

About the Author

Writer/Artist JAMIE ROSS has lived in Connecticut, Colorado, Iran, and Mexico. He currently resides on a mesa west of Taos.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Four Way (March 9, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1935536990
• ISBN-13: 978-1935536994
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 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: #3,070,592 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An Easter Ripped Open of a Book, August 12, 2010

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"So we mark/ ourselves. As road splits the village ....," writes Jamie Ross in the poem "Elope" from his collection, "Vinland," in which the theme of the drawn line as road, as lineage, as battle frontline, as crosshatch in the calendar of days works as leitmotif. Ross has written a collection of poems so marked by the scarring and resurrection of an "Easter ripped open" that it reminds us that if we could but recall the details of our own ancestry, our own drawing of a line as vividly as Ross does in "Vinland," we might create the life we had hoped to live but missed. The mesmerizing trajectory of many of Ross's poems straddle more than one reality like a Christmas in July. Let the deconstructionists deconstruct these poems; they will have split the lark. This book glides as mysteriously as any coracle carrying a corpse past the end of the line into a new world. This inaugural collection needs to be noted, celebrated, and studied for its deeply felt intuition. We are in the presence of an astonishingly real, made thing, a real artist. "Vinland" is a dream for which one must be awake.