BOOKS - Entering Another Country
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Entering Another Country
Author: Toni Ortner
Year: September 1, 2006
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 864 KB
Language: English
Year: September 1, 2006
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 864 KB
Language: English
Review by Helen Cooper in Motheroot Journal The title poem, and "Entering Another Country and ", is dedicated to a male friend who has died. There are exuberant, rich landscapes of imagined travel, journeys into the visual worlds of Grandma Moses and Rousseau, and the painful realization that what the poet means by travel is change and growth, the raw experience of self-birthing, a process into a place as unknown as the death place of her friend. Here Ortner connects with her female heritage. It is a courageous poem of breaking out, and the unfamiliar terrain into which this takes her almost robs the poet of speech.