I'd Rather Be a Hyacinth - Softcover

Hailey, Cathy

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798888380819

Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2023

Synopsis

I'd Rather Be a Hyacinth features ekphrastic poems inspired by an episodic performance of the Moscow Festival Ballet interwoven with poems of refuge from grief, the comfort and healing found in nature, memory, and family. The poems are an exploration of mimesis in Aristotle's sense, a re-representing of life-a witnessing and re-animation of the lives of all creatures in nature-the biosphere, the artistic life as performed on stage in the ballet, the spiritual life beyond, and a hope that illuminating the interconnectedness of all can bring about a renewed consciousness. I'd Rather Be a Hyacinth is a venture into the haiku sonnet, a hybrid form combining eastern and western poetic styles.

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About the Author

Cathy Hailey teaches as an adjunct lecturer in Johns Hopkins University's online MA in Teaching Writing program and previously taught high school English and Creative Writing in Prince William County (PWC), Virginia. She is Northern Region Vice President of The Poetry Society of Virginia (PSV) and organizes In the Company of Laureates, a biennial reading of poets laureate held in PWC. Her writing has been published in The New Verse News, Poetry Virginia, Written in Arlington, Stay Salty: Life in the Garden State (Vol. 2), Poetry for Ukraine (THE POET), Family (THE POET), and NoVA Bards. Poems are forthcoming in The Poetry Society of Virginia Centennial Anthology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798888380819
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 46