Anything in turquoise
By: Wendy Klein
Publisher: Cinnamon Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9781907090745
Description: Second collection from widely published Californian poet and pyschotherapist. Welsh Books Council Ail gasgliad o gerddi gan frodor o Galiffornia. Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru By turns raw, tender and humorous, Anything in Turquoise takes us on a lyrical and emotional journey. The journey begins with points east Mongolia, from where Having failed and failed to grasp lessons/ about cultures in varying states of disrepair/ having walked away even sadder we are moved to the Gobi desert; Vietnam where not only an American helicopter, but the poet is caught and pinned and tourists one Oriental,/ one Caucasian; .seem locked in contemplation of a common/ past; the hands of one the right age for rolling joints, releasing / Napalm, the other for hacking out tunnels. and Cambodia, where a school-turned-Khmer Rouge prison holds a single framed image/ for each grisly death, galleries/ or portraits . half a holocaust / under my feet. Moving West we are caught in Hurricanes and other Storms , the tilted headstones and bones left by Katrina . they know how to bury their dead. before finding ourselves in California where a slippery past intrudes on the present and the poet s mother is sharpening her Semitic tongue to lacerate the soul-less goyem before lurching towards incarceration, divorce,/ death. Finally we find ourselves Elsewhere places from Sweden to a road near Koronova; find ourselves back in time among cave people, in the company of Jackson Pollock repainting the cave until we stand, blinded / by this orgy of naked colour, already pining for our past. Cinnamon Press.