Bøger af Phibby Venable

New and Selected Poems, by Phibby Venable`... I would like to affirm that this is poetry that not only delights but, through its instinctive perception of, as well as insight into the human experience, is also inherently wise. Thus it is with great joy that I hail Phibby Venable as I do her BONES OF A GENEROUS WOMAN, a volume of poems so rich in imagination, poetic intent, and the very making of poems, their creation and, by extention, creation itself, that I do not hesitate to recommend it to every serious lover of poetry, as well as to other serious poets, as a book to read, reread, and keep nearby for that random, ravishing experience of catching life's essence on the wing! Marya Berry

Women of the Round Table centers on a group of friends who meet regularly around a kitchen table. Nothing is as it appears, and none of these women are ordinary. Each of these characters shares a common ground which gradually becomes invested with greater meaning ... bound together by generations of birth, death, and the miraculous ... a crystal has been handed down to a pair of sisters. It has power in it: each holder can make one wish.

Reflections on everything from jazz to independent living..probing insightscaptured in photographic imagery..!This poetry meets the human condition head on, yet lingers in a mystical imaginationof spirit..

There is listening, and there is listening truly. Phibby Venable's is the second kind, and her poems a true telling of what she has heard Listen to these poems. Believe the earth is singing, intent as any bird would be before a shake and flight to trees. George Wallace, writer in residence, Walt Whitman Birthplace. I would like to affirm that this is poetry that not only delights but, through its instinctive perception of, as well as insight into the human experience, is also inherently wise. A volume of poems so rich in imagination, poetic intent, and the very making of poems, their creation and, by extension, creation itself, that I do not hesitate to recommend it to every serious lover of poetry, as well as to other serious poets, as a book to read, reread, and keep nearby for that random, ravishing experience of catching life's essence on the wing! Marya Berry