An Imaginary Affair: Poems whispered to Neruda by Diana Raab (English) Hardcover

Description: An Imaginary Affair by Diana Raab This book is a tribute to the sensual physicality of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda written with unvarnished honesty touching on topics such as life, love, passion, death, loss, memory, and gratitude, including a poignant dedication to Neruda. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description An Imaginary Affair is a collection of sensitive and sensuous poems for poets and non-poets who appreciate the challenges and intricacies of being human. The poems touch on key human elements, such as love, desire, passion, memory, loss, and gratitude. The poet celebrates the joys, and pains inherent to a womans heart, while honoring the wisdoms and tones of Nerudas poetry. Some of the epistolary poems are directed to Neruda in response to his riveting poems. Author Biography Diana Raab, MFA, PhD, is a poet, memoirist, and blogger, and the award-winning author of nine books. She has four poetry collections: Dear Anais: My Life in Poems for You, The Guilt Gene, Listening to Africa, and Lust. Her most recent creative endeavor, Conversation Cards for Meaningful Storytelling, can serve as poetry prompts. She frequently speaks and writes about the healing and transformative powers of writing prose and poetry. Visit her at: dianaraab.com. Review "Written in response to lines by the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, these poems have a daring directness and vulnerability. These are not poems that hide their emotion behind artifice. They explore the beginnings-and inevitable endings-of attraction with a tender and elemental honesty."-Sue William Silverman, author, If the Girl Never Learns"An imaginary affair is more than a conversation with Nerudas poems. In this book, Diana Raab unveils trauma, desire, her life experience ("I am ready to wave goodbye to memories/and bow to gratitude"), and her passionate, non-imaginary affair with poetry. The language is sensual, synesthetic, and at the same time restrained, precise ("flecks of lemon rind float about this whiskey/swirled with honey from the bee that loves/that buzz you give me"). With subtlety and determination An imaginary affair invites the reader to enter the intimacy of poetry; its wisdom ("And we move together slowly, one step/at a time toward another dance, another life").-Mariano Zaro, author of Decoding Sparrows"In this intimate collection of poems, Diana Raab pays tribute to the sensual physicality of Pablo Nerudas work and to her own real and invented lives. With unvarnished honesty, An Imaginary Affair celebrates a womans heart and mind through a handful of odes, epistolary poems, and the idea that memory and anticipation can sustain and nourish us; even drinking a glowing hot toddy is transformed into a meditation on how an ordinary act can awaken desire. Her unvarnished honesty gives equal attention to matters of mortality, where loss is lyrically considered ("...will you run from me / when trains sleep at their stations"), and also explored in the spirit of open curiosity ("How long does it take / for a pine casket to disintegrate / in this caving land...). These poems remind us that to be alive is to try and balance joy and lament, and how through this effort we more deeply inhabit the world and ourselves."-Emma Trelles, author of Tropicalia and Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara Details ISBN1646629116 Author Diana Raab Short Title An Imaginary Affair Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1646629116 ISBN-13 9781646629114 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2022-07-08 Pages 38 Publisher Finishing Line Press Imprint Finishing Line Press Subtitle Poems whispered to Neruda Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159503803;

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