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Rojas, Val Dering

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1941783228 ISBN 13: 9781941783221

Publisher: Glass Lyre Press, 2016

Synopsis

"Val Dering Rojas is a poet of the elements, as if earth, fire, air, water and aether were contained in her quill. 'There is no science/which knows my fear/of how the land will love us,' she says, intimating that a true, natural, mysterious force is at work, which may very well be found in her ability to limn the ineffable with poetry. Rojas' poems vary widely even in this small collection—prose poem, surrealist dream, Ferlinghetti­like line breaks—no form seems beyond her. Her titles alone suggest a map for the questing soul: "Awake," "Loss," "How to Leave the World." These are powerful, musical evocations of modern life, written with blood and daring and a gimlet eye."

—Corey Mesler, author of Opaque Melodies that Would Bug Most People

About this title

About the Author

Val Dering Rojas is a Los Angeles based poet and artist who has also studied Addiction and Recovery Counseling and Psychology. She is the author of the chapbook TEN (Dancing Girl Press, 2014) and a Pushcart nominee. Val believes water is what keeps her in coastal Los Angeles, as she is attracted to water of many kinds: bathwater, pool water, ocean water and tears. When not writing, Val enjoys busking poems at the beaches of Venice, CA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Glass Lyre Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1941783228
• ISBN 13: 9781941783221
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 36