Wayfaring Stranger is a profoundly effective collection of verse by poet M. Rose Barkley, and has been lauded by fellow poet and educator, Nikki Giovanni. Daringly, the words touch our vulnerabilities, revealing them for what they're worth-good, bad or indifferent-offering universal insight to the reader, from one African-American woman's perspective. Read it with a friend and let the dialogue begin!
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Wayfaring Stranger is like the ancestors coming back sharing wisdom, sharing love, sharing strength in troubled times. What a magnificent achievement she has crafted. We will always need to hear her words. NIKKI GIOVANNI, Poet -- Publisher Comments
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Quite the renaissance woman, M. Rose Barkley has by choice or circumstance, transformed herself into a myriad of personas. A native of Southern New Jersey, Barkley has been writing for over two decades. Her debut release, Wayfaring Stranger, is but a glimpse of her profoundly prolific talent. An anomaly of sorts, Barkley graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a degree in Real Estate and Urban Land Development. Irregardless, the author states: "My poetry levels me at times of imbalance and uncertainty-It is the undergird of all else I am and everything I might ever be."
And "be" she does. M. Rose Barkley's many accomplishments include: Publisher, Motivational Speaker, TV Producer, Real Estate Consultant, Talk-Show Host, Editor and even Baker. In the author's own words: "Living life is serious business and if you're doing it well you haven't time for anything else and nothing else is more satisfying."
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
M. Rose Barkley writes with breathtaking emotion.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Wayfaring Stranger-Poems (Paperback)
"Wayfaring Stranger is what you're after when browsing the shelves for something great to read. Provoking and seducing the reader with its language, and, perhaps most of all, with its utter connection to reality. I would rank the author with the Nikki Giovanni's, Dr. Mayo Angelou's, and Langston Hughes' of the 21st Century. Finishing this book, left me a great since of essential viewpoint on today's society, and I look forward to M. Rose Barkley's next work."
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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goosebumps,
By Marvin Bron (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Europe) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wayfaring Stranger-Poems (Paperback)
I got this 'piece of art' the 25th. of December 1999.(yep, Christmas Day)The minute I started to read I was sold. I was touched in a very special way. Straight in the heart. I'm a black guy from Holland and I didn't understand everything at once, but I believe that every black man should own a copy of this piece of black gold. I believe the words in this book are very strong and very true. It gives me peace of mind in times when my live gets crazy. It helps me to put my life back into perspective. Thank you Rose Barkley
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Wayfaring Stranger,
By Alicia Aaronowitz (Santa Monica, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wayfaring Stranger-Poems (Paperback)
M. Rose Barkley's poems speak with an intense rhythm. Her truths are direct and real; the music of this poetry carries forward straight to the soul. Sometimes we are brought to a new place with repeated lines, "I sit thinking/Blinking memories/of You/Blinking/Past images of you." Sometimes we are moved by single syllable beats, "Bird song/sing bird/as you melt/My soul away from this." And often Ms. Barkley brings us the excitement of a multi-syllabic rhythm, "Staring@ a 90 degree angle's impression/of the torchiere's light thrust upward/upon the green walls/like a horizontal sunrise bursting..." Singing with this virtuosic sense of rhythm, Ms. Barkley's brings her messages straight to us...messages of her search for herself, her identity as a black woman, her sense of who she is and her desire to right social injustice. Some of these poems are exhortations in the style of Lucille Clifton, "Go young children/and learn/Seek out/those things/which make your spirits/burn/Just go/Learn." And "Black Girl/Why is color/on your mind." Some are chants. I would love to hear the poet say this one, "I can squeeze/on a dollar/'til the joker drip/green/ If I gotta make it/holler-/Yeah, you know/what I mean." That poem is hollering to be heard.
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