The first in a series of discovery editions of significant contemporary American poets by Two Steps Publishing Company, San Francisco, CA. 300 poems by Teresa White -- including all the poems she wrote as a child, through her teens and through young adulthood.
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Teresa Whites In What Furnace is a collection of 288 poems, all written by a northwestern poet whose biography includes the diagnosis of manic/depression, the experience of unwed mother, and the address of mental institutions. The collection represents a cross section of her body of work for the thirty-odd years that she has practiced this art, and her talent obviously grows as she matures. The author has a keen eye for simple details, the hand-crocheted afghans, rubbing alcohol, and metallic clipboards' of nursing homes, the downward glance of embarrassed shame that a father feels when he interrupts his adolescent daughters bath, the burning house whipped by flames from birthday candles grown uncontrolled while the family waits for the celebrant to make a wish. She evokes mystery and sensuality in a series of 'travelogues,' sweeping through Greece, Fiji, and India. Her 'Two Photographs' replays the unreality of Platos cave-dwellers, their reality a shadow cast upon the wall, hers a poetic photo of a grandmother staring at a photo. Her poem 'The Iris' is beautifully sensual and evocative, reminding all of us that natures procreation is wondrous:
'Blue lips invite the dip and/ taste of bees/ who would go berserk/ if they could not enter her.'
The author knots a tapestry of public and private history, myth, memory, and desire. The truth she finds is timeless. -- C.D. Sinclair
About the Author
As the daughter of a civil engineer and a journalist, Teresa had an adventurous childhood including a year in Australia at age ten. Due to the nature of her father's work the family moved frequently. She had attended over 30 schools by grade 10. Unable to complete her college education due to the onset of bipolar illness, Teresa spent several years in and out of mental hospitals --often misdiagnosed and wrongly treated. "Poetry is as essential as breathing," she's said and is presently working on her second volume of verse while active on the Internet in poetry forums.
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teresa white is among my favourite poets, and she shares this "honour" with people like plath, cohen, strand, parker and austrian thomas bernhard - to name but a few.what i admire most in her poetry, is that everything looks so simple. she has that special ability of weaving intriguing pictures with everyday words. she has an eye for the extraordinary within the ordinary, and she manages to invite us in, and make us part of it all. these are earlier works, and the only thing about the book that i don't like is that there is no information regarding the dates when those poems were written. it has been such a privilege to know teresa white personally, and she has taught me a lot over the months. and it has been a pleasure reading her poems, old and new, published ones and first drafts. i am sure i will never tire of reading her work. if you are looking for good quality temporary poetry, this is one book i recommend. and keep an eye open for her upcoming second book!
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