ACCIDENTAL JOY. A STREAK OF POETRY - Tecno-Libro

With the sprawling celebration of Walt Whitman and the meditative concentration of Mary Oliver, Accidental Joy is more than a poetic monologue-it is a personal epic. it is private prayer and public performance in one. Sitting down to read it feels like you re taking in a good bottle of wine: the flavors, highlights, and notes are diverse and complex, but they nonetheless create a unified flavor, a cohesive and balanced whole. Allyson Whipple , author of We re Smaller Than We Think We Are Judith Austin Mills is a poet who wins poetry contests, some with very formal requirements, but this sequence opened to me her driving force for clear, beautiful expression in free verse. i found graceful lyricism, eloquent description, and searing social criticism, all of them in a stream of philosophical insight highlighted with snorts of humor. i will be buying copies of this book to give to my friends. Elzy Cogswell , former President of the Au