Striking Light from Ashes by Charise M. Hoge

$14.99

 

“From the very beginning—start with the title of this book—Charise Hoge startles, courageously confronts, challenges, and inspires with her bold insights and insistence on telling the truth. Her poem “Dowager’s Hump” is a fine example of her style: spare and uncluttered, brief in length but dense with meaning, effortless humorous echoic word play; yet this plain poem strikes at the heart of the burden women carry, starting with the distorted Adamic myth and the burden of suppression; still, there is the beautiful and heart-rending eternal carrying of the birthed-world on their backs and in their bellies. I can’t wait to see what Charise’s talent and imagination give us next! I loved reading these poems and whole-heartedly recommend them to you.”

 –Red Hawk, Author of Self Observation and Self Remembering (both from Hohm Press) as well as 8 books of poetry. His new book of poems Return To the Mother (poems inspired by the teachings of Lao Tsu) will appear in the fall from Hohm Press.

 

“The poems in Striking Light from Ashes burn into the mind and soul. From current events to fairy tales, Hoge’s poems play with form and content in a way that salvages light from near darkness.”

–Robert Lee Brewer, author of Solving the World’s Problems and editor of Poet’s Market

 

 

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 Striking Light from Ashes

by Charise M. Hoge

$14.99, paper

978-1-63534-256-7

2017

Charise Hoge is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College (BA), New York University (MA, Dance Movement Therapy), and University of Georgia (Master of Social Work). Her career has always interwoven expressive arts – writing, dance, movement – with healing.  She has been a company member of PATH Dance Company, Baltimore; Room To Move, Atlanta; and Ancient Rhythms Dance, Washington, D.C.  She has worked as a dance/movement therapist with psychiatric and prison populations, as a mental health counselor for the international expatriate community of Bangkok, Thailand, and as a coach on identity and relocation. Her yoga and dance programs over the past eighteen years have included classes for staff of the World Bank, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the National Gallery of Art, and the National Zoo.  As a writer, she co-authored A Portable Identity: A Woman’s Guide to Maintaining a Sense of Self While Moving Overseas, and contributed her story as a military spouse for the book Once a Warrior Always a Warrior.  Charise continues to consult, teach, perform in collaboration with dance theatre choreographers of Washington, D.C., and is devoted to writing. Her poetry appears in Englyn Journal, David Lehman’s poetry column “Next Line, Please” of The American Scholar as well as the forthcoming book Next Line, Please (Cornell University Press), the graduate course “Arts and Healing” at Lesley University, and her poetry blog mixandmossspoetry.com.

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