Poems in Intimacy with the Wind encapsulate a nomadic life living on a solar electric-powered houseboat on a lake. They touch on nature and the environment, and fuse the themes of love, family, death and life throughout.
“Living on a solar-powered houseboat as it moves up and down Lake Champlain is bound to make one intimate with the wind—its vagaries, energies, and comforts alike. But in Carla Schwartz’s new collection of poems, there are also the winds that pass over and through the inner landscapes. There are, for instance, the winds that bring us together in love, and the winds that draw us apart in grief. Also, there is the chill wind of the harm that some may do to others, and there are the winds of determined resilience, the kind that carry the survivor to the shore. These finely crafted poems give us this poet’s vivid sense of being in the world, as if we are with her breathing in what life has to offer, a good wind overhead, like a blessing.”
Poems in Intimacy with the Wind encapsulate a nomadic life living on a solar electric-powered houseboat on a lake. They touch on nature and the environment, and fuse the themes of love, family, death and life throughout.
“Living on a solar-powered houseboat as it moves up and down Lake Champlain is bound to make one intimate with the wind—its vagaries, energies, and comforts alike. But in Carla Schwartz’s new collection of poems, there are also the winds that pass over and through the inner landscapes. There are, for instance, the winds that bring us together in love, and the winds that draw us apart in grief. Also, there is the chill wind of the harm that some may do to others, and there are the winds of determined resilience, the kind that carry the survivor to the shore. These finely crafted poems give us this poet’s vivid sense of being in the world, as if we are with her breathing in what life has to offer, a good wind overhead, like a blessing.”