Título: Moon Fire: Poetry on Skating
Autor: Mardelle Fortier
Sinopse: Review
In Moon Fire: Poems on Skating, Mardelle Fortier’s poetry glides smoothly across the page, leaps and twirls, as she celebrates the beauty of world-class figure skating. Her attention takes in not only on the artistry of the skaters (many of them Olympic champions), but also the music, colors, lights and audience. In this collection, a skater may bend “like a flower,” “fly across frozen tears,” experience an “inner jaguar,” or hear the moon whispering in Italian. Fear falls from a skater “like an old shawl.” Whether you only watch Olympic figure skating during the Olympics, or follow the sport year round, year-after-year, you will enjoy revisiting momentous performances expressed in imaginative and metaphoric language.
Wilda Morris, author of Szechwan Shrimp and Fortune Cookies: Poems from a Chines Restaurant, former president of both the Illinois State Poetry Society and Poets and Patrons
Reading Mardelle Fortier’s skating poems is like sitting at the side of an ice skating rink, watching beautiful words and phrases fly gracefully in colorful lights with violin music. Suddenly they plunge into perfect spins, glide on the ice, then a sudden leap, and our eyes and hearts all float with them weightlessly in the air, to a burst of applause.
William Marr, author of Autumn Window and Between Heaven and Earth
About the Author
Mardelle Fortier is the author of WHITE FIRE, a chapbook about Olympic skaters published by Finishing Line Press in 2013. An award-winning poet, she has won numerous prizes, especially from Poets and Patrons of Chicago. She has over 100 poems in print. Twice she served as president of Illinois State Poetry Society. Fortier teaches writing at College of DuPage.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Moon Fire: Poetry on Skating”, de Mardelle Fortier, publicado pela editora Finishing Line Press, em 2018 e com 40 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Finishing Line Press
Páginas: 40
Ano: 2018
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1635347653
ISBN13: 9781635347654
