The majestic Ko`olau Mountains is the setting for Honolulu author Kathryn Waddell Takara’s new collection of poetry, Pacific Raven, Hawai`i Poems.
“These sonorous poems register the ways in which growth and dwelling – being attentive and responsive to the natural, social, and political economies of one’s surroundings – involve spiritual and creative movement. Takara has gathered within herself many artistic and philosophical traditions, and out of them fashioned a supple, personal and committed lyric line,” writes Paul Lyons.
This is a book of Hawai`i, of its life and its land… If you've never been to Hawai`i, then come here first. It's a better introduction than anything from the Hawaii Visitors Bureau. You'll feel so at home. For Kathryn is here. Like Nefertiti, the beautiful one has come.”
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The majestic Ko`olau Mountains is the setting for Honolulu author Kathryn Waddell Takara’s new collection of poetry, Pacific Raven, Hawai`i Poems, with an introduction by award-winning Maui poet, Ayin Adams.. The lyrical poetry of Takara mingles the ethereal with the corporeal. Takara’s poems inspire. They transcend the personal and join with the social, historical, political, philosophical and cosmic forces that touch our lives in Hawai`i and beyond. She intersects her sketches of human nature and desires, of the environment and local community with her poignant observations of Nature’s fragile beauty in the Hawaiian Islands.
A Collection of Voices from Around the World is more than just a poetry compilation. It is a partnership of poets from around the globe brought together by an internet poetry forum. That forum, poetrypages.com, has been the home of many a fine poet s
This is a book of free verse poetry that addresses the seven main tests in life and offers some sensible solutions to passing those tests with minimal discomfort.
