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.
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Each person is but a grain of sand resting beside the sea. This thought sets the tone for Jill Eisnaugle’s latest poetry collection, Beside Still Waters.
