{"product_id":"9780615694023","title":"Amytis Leaves Her Garden","description":"Amytis Leaves Her Garden is a lovely, lyrical collection. I particularly admire the musicality of your indvidual lines. You write with an admirable density.\u003cbr\u003e~ comments from Dana Gioia\u003cp\u003eKaren Kelsay's distinct poetic voice descends not from the modernists, but from the 19th-century \"poetess\" tradition that is being rediscovered by feminist scholars. Kelsay is the editor of Victorian Violet Press poetry journal, and like flowers pressed within the pages of a Victorian album, her poems translate memorable experiences into compressed visual images, and vice versa. Lush passages of description and hard-earned lines of wisdom lodge in the reader's mind. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e~ Julie Kane, Poet Laureate of Louisiana 2012 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStudying this collection, \"Amytis Leaves Her Garden,\" I am captivated most by author Karen Kelsay's confidence in her audience. Hers is a verse to respect the reader at every turn - beauty without blind, trap, or land-mine, as secure in itself as it is in its reader. \"I read my thoughts on some far distant night...\" she writes in the poem 'Quiet Flame' - an apt epithet for the collection - \"...green willow trees with soft Parisian light.\" And, seated in her audience, I feel as though not only is that light my own possession, but -\"far and distant\" - the thought, as well. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e~ Jennifer Reeser\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"White Violet Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49963123409136,"sku":"9780615694023","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780615694023","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}