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OWNING THE NOT SO DISTANT WORLD IBD

BLUE LIGHT PRESS
05 / 2024
9781421835617
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Sinopsis

Grace Cavalieri is a poet, a painter, and a playwright. In her new book,áOwning The Not So Distant World,áshe journeys through love and its permutations, and the harsh realities of a military wifeâÇÖs life made memorable with prosody. Cavalieri is not afraid of the nighttime mind and its hidden treasures, she dares to dive deep into the unconscious, to surface with astonishment and gratitude. These are poems of risk and sometimes experimentation, breaking old forms to create energy for the new.ááCavalieri shares the compassion of poetry, like a candle held out to the world.Grace Cavalieri was MarylandâÇÖs tenth Poet Laureate (2018-2024). ááShe founded and still produces 'The Poet and the Poem' for public radio, now from the Library of Congress, celebrating 47 years on-air in 2024. She holds two Allen Ginsberg Awards, The Paterson Award, the AWP George Garrett, Columbia, Bordighera, AAUW Awards, National Commission on Working Women Award, and the CPB Silver Medal, plus others. SheâÇÖs an Academy of American Poets Fellow. SheâÇÖs had 20 plays produced on American stages. In July 2023, twenty-five years of her podcasts were sent to the moon from NASA on Lunar Codex.