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River by the Glass

River by the Glass

Monika Rose
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River by the Glass is an eclectic collection of poems that explores life and the living of it. "The poems," says publisher of River by the Glass, Ron Pickup of GlenHill Publications, "contain a whimsical wit and metaphysical humor." Ron Pickup states about the "I first published Monika Rose's poetry in the Mindprint Review, a literary journal of regional and international writing and art. Even then, I was taken with her whimsical wit and metaphysical humor in poems such as 'Carp' and 'Eye.' Today, she has evolved these skills into the biting imagery but sensitive and haunting verse found in the likes of 'Drowning in the Kern,' 'Chester and the Bluebird,' and 'On the Fence.' This is the ethereal yet concrete fine poetry of a master poet. In 'Chester and the Bluebird,' a spirited blue bird standing in for a beloved pet steer, just reduced to sizzling steaks on the family barbecue, is Rose's respectful reply to the classic, important image of 'a red wheel/barrow/glazed with rain/water/beside the white/chickens,' written by the pillar of Objectivism, William Carlos Williams. The poetry in this collection has been forged and tempered over two decades of writing. With the publication of River by the Glass, we at last have the collected poetry to date, of the hardest working poet I have been privileged to know. GlenHill is proud to present these fruits of her long labor."

The poems reflect visual puzzles and conundrums of life. Rose recalls times in her childhood when her barefoot explorations met barbarism in the human defacement of nature, with broken beer bottles and ugly shards of brown glass marring the lovely boulders, sand, and purity of her favorite river haunt, the Kern River. She could never understand how people could defile the lovely places in our lives, the perfect respites from the asphalt and concrete world, the places that echo our aspirations and stimulate our deadened nerves and senses. Yet, in a strange, kaleidoscopic way, those shards of glass strewn in the river even now, seem to glitter and demand meaning for being what they are, products of reality. They exist and they are there, eyesores clashing with the ideal of what the poet envisions. This collection is the poet's way of cleansing some of the impure places and disappointments lodged in the human heart, and it explores the mysteries in human behavior and the natural movements in nature.

Monika says, "Poetry allows us to express our feelings or ideas within a capsule of time and to share the illumination of an acute insight with someone else." She says this collection "reveals the many ways we perceive life via glass, such as through eyeglasses, TV and computer screens, camera lenses, car windows, or reflectively as in mirrors." She says that we are so numbed by routine, so busy and involved in the workaday world, that we don't get a chance to actually see much at all. She poses this thought, "Poetry is a means for us to stop and feel what is most important and recall lost memories."

Monika Rose's poems have been published in Poetry Now, Mokehillian Review, Rattlesnake Review, Tule Review, Manzanita, Mindprint Review, and anthologies such as Yosemite Poets and Shadows of Light.
Language
English
Pages
212
Format
Paperback
Release
May 01, 2011
ISBN 13
9780962309434

River by the Glass

Monika Rose
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
River by the Glass is an eclectic collection of poems that explores life and the living of it. "The poems," says publisher of River by the Glass, Ron Pickup of GlenHill Publications, "contain a whimsical wit and metaphysical humor." Ron Pickup states about the "I first published Monika Rose's poetry in the Mindprint Review, a literary journal of regional and international writing and art. Even then, I was taken with her whimsical wit and metaphysical humor in poems such as 'Carp' and 'Eye.' Today, she has evolved these skills into the biting imagery but sensitive and haunting verse found in the likes of 'Drowning in the Kern,' 'Chester and the Bluebird,' and 'On the Fence.' This is the ethereal yet concrete fine poetry of a master poet. In 'Chester and the Bluebird,' a spirited blue bird standing in for a beloved pet steer, just reduced to sizzling steaks on the family barbecue, is Rose's respectful reply to the classic, important image of 'a red wheel/barrow/glazed with rain/water/beside the white/chickens,' written by the pillar of Objectivism, William Carlos Williams. The poetry in this collection has been forged and tempered over two decades of writing. With the publication of River by the Glass, we at last have the collected poetry to date, of the hardest working poet I have been privileged to know. GlenHill is proud to present these fruits of her long labor."

The poems reflect visual puzzles and conundrums of life. Rose recalls times in her childhood when her barefoot explorations met barbarism in the human defacement of nature, with broken beer bottles and ugly shards of brown glass marring the lovely boulders, sand, and purity of her favorite river haunt, the Kern River. She could never understand how people could defile the lovely places in our lives, the perfect respites from the asphalt and concrete world, the places that echo our aspirations and stimulate our deadened nerves and senses. Yet, in a strange, kaleidoscopic way, those shards of glass strewn in the river even now, seem to glitter and demand meaning for being what they are, products of reality. They exist and they are there, eyesores clashing with the ideal of what the poet envisions. This collection is the poet's way of cleansing some of the impure places and disappointments lodged in the human heart, and it explores the mysteries in human behavior and the natural movements in nature.

Monika says, "Poetry allows us to express our feelings or ideas within a capsule of time and to share the illumination of an acute insight with someone else." She says this collection "reveals the many ways we perceive life via glass, such as through eyeglasses, TV and computer screens, camera lenses, car windows, or reflectively as in mirrors." She says that we are so numbed by routine, so busy and involved in the workaday world, that we don't get a chance to actually see much at all. She poses this thought, "Poetry is a means for us to stop and feel what is most important and recall lost memories."

Monika Rose's poems have been published in Poetry Now, Mokehillian Review, Rattlesnake Review, Tule Review, Manzanita, Mindprint Review, and anthologies such as Yosemite Poets and Shadows of Light.
Language
English
Pages
212
Format
Paperback
Release
May 01, 2011
ISBN 13
9780962309434

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