A Selected History of Her Heart: Poems

by Carole Simmons Oles

Overview

Travel, blood, and transgression are the materials that art shapes in these poems. Carole Simmons Oles’s work moves among physical, spiritual, and metaphorical frontiers where East meets West, where relationships are forged and broken, and where a woman can now process and reflect on the experiences that have shaped her life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826355140
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	09/01/2014
Series:	Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	80
File size:	375 KB

About the Author

Carole Simmons Oles is the author of eight other books of poetry, including The Deed: Poems and Waking Stone: Inventions on the Life of Harriet Hosmer.

Editorial Reviews

"Through the lens of her singular and compelling life, Carole Simmons Oles guides us through our fractured, confused, violent century. At seventy, facing an increasingly fragile body, Oles crafts language that creates bonds—across cultures and tongues, across decades and oceans and continents. These powerhouse poems reach out generation to generation with generosity and compassion. These poems invite us in, offer food and drink and shelter."—Peggy Shumaker, author of Gnawed Bones

"In her eighth book of poetry, Carole Simmons Oles engages the tough material of memoir: a long sequence on her experience living in Morocco in the 1960s, teaching teenagers not much younger than she was. The concluding sequence takes readers to Rome, to welcome the birth of the poet's first granddaughter. Blood, art, travel, and transgression are the materials of these gorgeous poems. Read them and rejoice in the reach of Oles's art."—Hilda Raz, coauthor of What Becomes You

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