Charles Van Doren writes, “This book is wonderful. I have read all the poems at least twice, some three or four times to myself and to my wife. They are moving, beautiful, startling, and sometimes very funny. The range is extraordinary, from the dirge for a friend murdered in Zimbabwe to the ode to chocolate. The short ones are delightful and the long ones grand.” Other endorsements have been equally enthusiastic: “My delight in Joan Kunsch’s poetry lies in her ability to capture the moment of experience, be it of the past or the present, of Torrington or the Arctic tundra,” says Ann Hutchinson Guest. And Susan Kinsolving comments as follows: “Joan Kunsch writes, ‘The one who haunts me is never twice the same...’ How true. As she dances, mourns, reflects, travels, and translates, her readers too may be haunted by these poems, and indeed, never quite the same, thanks to this fine collection.” Joan Kunsch is on the classical ballet faculty at Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts, where she is also associate director. Guest teaching and choreography have taken her around North America and abroad, particularly to Scandinavia, England and The Netherlands. She belongs to a teaching team that has produced dancers for over fifty professional companies touring worldwide, and her choreography comprises over sixty works for concert stage, television, sacred space and outdoor sites. An artist and writer, Joan Kunsch has had work published in the U.S.A., Norway, England and India. She translates contemporary Norwegian poets, presents readings in Norwegian as well as English, and performs “Flute Meets Poem” in a duo with her sister, Kathi Byam. She lives in Torrington, Connecticut. The Antrim House seminar room offers notes, ideas for discussion & writing, images, and/or additional poems. Click here to read the seminar offering for Perspective. Click here to read six sample poems. News Break: Joan Kunsch's translation of Dag Sundby's "Window on the Moldau," which appears in Playing with Gravity, has been selected as one of the twelve best poems ever published in Ice Flow, an Alaskan periodical. |
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BOOK STATISTICS ISBN 978-0-9770633-8-3
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PREGNANT NUDE AT PLAY Handstand |
NIGHT LIFE Often in dreams I am waving farewell to you |
LOUISE AND THE STAR SHOWER "Often a star was waiting for you to notice it." Your arrival in the pasture at 2:00 a.m. |
KOSCHKA
Odd that, in all the years we've known each other, |
OFFSTAGE CHOREOGRAPHY
Feet first, she leans |
INTO THE SAGA
The mountain must have trembled at such a fall. |
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