THE OPPOSITE OF CLAIRVOYANCE - Softcover

Wegener, Gillian

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9780976764274: THE OPPOSITE OF CLAIRVOYANCE

Softcover

ISBN 10: 097676427X ISBN 13: 9780976764274

Publisher: Sixteen Rivers Press, 2008

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Poetry. Gillian Wegener's first full-length book of poetry, THE OPPOSITE OF CLAIRVOYANCE, delves deeply and tenderly into the territory of the everyday. With an eye tuned to the most delicate of details, she creates a world where the call of an unseen bird is as rich with meaning as the metallic crunch of an auto accident. Set against the background of California's Central Valley, this book of imagistic and thoughtful poems leads us to an often elusive realization: that home can be found in unexpected places. "In a characteristically authentic poem, Gillian Wegener gives us the soul masquerading as a butterfly. 'Attaching the wings is the easy part,' she begins, preparing us for flight that takes different shapes in poem after poem. Whatever her subject--the natural world animated again and again by birds--or daily human settings--Wegener soars, delivering beautiful, heartfelt vistas with her sure knowing sight"--Barbara Ras.

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About the Author:

Gillian Wegener is the author of THIS SWEET HAPHAZARD (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2017), THE OPPOSITE OF CLAIRVOYANCE (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2008), and a chapbook, Lifting One Foot, Lifting the Other (In the Grove Press, 2001). Wegener has won several awards for her work including the Dorothy Sargent Rosenburg Poetry Prize in 2006 and 2007 and the Zocalo Public Square Prize for Poetry of Place in 2015. Wegener, a junior high teacher, lives with her husband and daughter in Modesto, CA, where she is a cofounder of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and has served as the poet laureate for the City of Modesto.

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This book has both heart and intelligence. Gillian Wegener is a gifted poet who often takes on what seems too ephemeral for words, yet finds permanent expression with grace and lively sensibility. These poems are expansive, hopeful, and beautiful. --Gary Short

Accurate of image, original of insight, various in its curiosity and directions of gaze, this book of active, grounded seeing brings its local world--mostly California's Central Valley and the inner and outer lives it sustains--alive in vivid, broad, and deeply resonant ways. --Jane Hirshfield

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