M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A: Poems, (Paperback)

from regularguy5mb

This was a book that I purchased for a poetry writing class that we then never bothered to reference or read, so it's been sitting in my "to read" pile for a number of years, tucked away in a storage bin that I'm finally going through. It certainly is an interesting piece, all the works included ...

from regularguy5mb

This was a book that I purchased for a poetry writing class that we then never bothered to reference or read, so it's been sitting in my "to read" pile for a number of years, tucked away in a storage bin that I'm finally going through. It certainly is an interesting piece, all the works included ...

from Paulagraph

MACNOLIA engaged me as a hybrid piece, more a novel comprised of poems than a book of stand-alone poems (and therein lies its strength, I think). As in Lyrae Van Clief-Stephanon's Black Swan, Van Jordan's poems come together to form a coherent and interesting whole greater than the sum of its par...

from whitewavedarling

The story and poems here are beautiful. I've been teaching this book for two years now, and while it's not an easy read for the students, most of them come to appreciate it, and some are always touched and fall in love with it. Van Jordan brings the men and women here to life by focusing on the s...

from whitewavedarling

The story and poems here are beautiful. I've been teaching this book for two years now, and while it's not an easy read for the students, most of them come to appreciate it, and some are always touched and fall in love with it. Van Jordan brings the men and women here to life by focusing on the s...