Description: Charlotte Mandel's latest work, Rock Vein Sky, contains poems that passionately personalize headlines of natural and man-made disasters - tsunami, 9/ll, a suicide bomber’s voice to his mother - and poems lifted by loving connection to immigrant heritage, newborns, a long marriage, attention to nature. Forms include sestina, sonnets, and original organic forms.
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By Charlotte Mandel ISBN: 13-978-1-949229-86-8, 56 pages, $14.00 Available from Amazon and other booksellers Published by Kelsay Books - Publishers of award-winning poetry books.
"Mandel is a retired writing teacher and published poet of “prose poems, poems in free verse, [as well as] formal received or nonce forms.” Recently she has turned her pen to haibun, with nice results. As might be expected, the prose consistently sings with vibrant and compelling metaphors...The collection includes some excellent haibun in which the rub of prose and poem ignites moments of exquisite consciousness. Mining years of “freely” scribbled diaries, Mandel recalls landscapes and relationships with a
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