Word Wounds & Water Flowers (Via Folios Series) [Paperback]

Daniela Gioseffi (Author)

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Aeschylus Chorus
After Our Argument, We Canoe
American Sonnets For My Father
Answer To The Suicide
Aperture
April Loon
As When Some Silenced Singer Hears Her Aria
Beneath The Dreaming Tree
The Blind Soprano Sings
Blood Autumn
Cento At Dawn
Dancing Song For My Daughter
The Fishblood Of A Woman
For Grandma Lucia La Rosa, Light The Rose
The Girl With Purple Hair
The Guillotine And The Cathedral
Guilt Is A Gift That Is Given
Jazz Lady Of The Subway
The Language Of Light
The Lily Shivers
Matrimonial Bed
The Mother At The Zoo
Oh, Anus, Through The Centuries
The Olive Branch
On Top Of The Empire State
The Practical Nurse
Pregnancy And Old Men
The Pregnant Gardener
Returning From Paradise We Stop At A Carnival
The Ruby Throated Hummingbirds Are Gone
Shaman's Song
Shangri-la
Sheepdog Of The City
The Sign Of The Cross
Sunlight
Through The I Of The Needle
The Thumbless Bus Driver
Toward The Greater Romance, Please Place Roses In My Skull
The Trees Are Dying
Unfinished Autobiography
Wake Me Up In A Hundred Years
Wheat
Winter Dark
Woman From My Womb
A Woman's Buttocks
Word Wounds And Water Flowers
Your Body
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

Daniela Gioseffi has presented her poetry throughout North America and Europe at universities, cultural centers, and international book fairs, in Madrid, London, New York, California, Barcelona, and Venice. She's performed her works for National Public Radio, Pacifica Radio, the BBC in Oxford and London and for numerous other media venues. Her book, Women on War: International Writings (Feminist Press, 2003) won an American Book Award, and was published in Vienna and London. Her novel, The Great America Belly (Doubleday & Dell, NY; New English Library, London) was optioned for a screenplay by Warner Bros. Her fiction, Daffodil Dollars won a PEN, 1990 short fiction award and was aired on many NPR affiliates. In 1993, Anchor/ Doubleday published her world compendium, On Prejudice: A Global Perspective with a fifty-page introduction by Gioseffi that won a Ploughshares Fund, World Peace Award and was presented at the United Nations. Poems contained in her debut collection, Eggs in the Lake (BOA Editions, 1979), won award grants from The New York State Council for the Arts. She published three more volumes of poetry, Word Wounds & Water Flowers, 1995, and Going On, 2000 (Bordighera: VIA Folios); and Symbiosis, 2002 (Rattapallax: NY). Her verse was etched in marble on a wall of PENN Station's 7th Avenue Concourse, New York, with Ginsberg's and Whitman's. In 2003, AIAE presented her with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Product Details

• Paperback: 86 pages
• Publisher: Bordighera Press (January 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884419038
• ISBN-13: 978-1884419034
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,128,416 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ORIGINAL, POWERFUL, INSPIRING AND ACCESSIBLE POETRY, August 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Word Wounds & Water Flowers (Via Folios Series) (Paperback)

This is an inspiring and original book of poetry. I was moved by its vision and excited by its imagery. Gioseffi writes beautifully of the natural world, but is full of human concern. She is a poet for all seasons. Word Wounds and Water Flowers resonates with vitality concerning issues of our time, yet it is universal in its appeal and acessible, too. A true poet of passion and logic. Nona Balakian, of The New York Times was correct to say that "nothing is ever pretentious or done for effect. Daniela Gioseffi is one of the best new poets around and I am ashamed that I was unaware of her work until now. She has achieved what the surrealists hoped for poetry." This new book has elements of surrealism but reaches deeper than Gioseffi's first book. Galway Kinnell, Pulitzer and National Book Award winning poet, called it "visionary and powerful with tremendous vitality," and it is. I recommend it. The blurbs on its back cover are true.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very moving and well written poetry. Embraces the spirit.., August 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Word Wounds & Water Flowers (Via Folios Series) (Paperback)

Word Wounds & Water Flowers is an uplifting and poignant, very inspiring work of poetic art. So human and eloquent. Daniela Gioseffi is, just as Nona Balakian, former staff reviewer at the New York Times, said: "among the best poets of our time." These poems are "powerful and visionary" just as Galway Kinnell wrote on the back cover, and fully sensitive to the issues of our age. Lyrical and meaningful.