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Word Wounds & Water Flowers (Via Folios Series)

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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.

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.