NIGHT SPARK: THE ZOE POEMS by B. E. Kahn
$14.00
B.E. Kahn has written from inside the labyrinth of trauma in poems that are puzzles, turns, patterns and paths that lead out and into the open air. The collection is a testament to the endurance of children and the hard work of recovering a self that has been silenced. These poems blaze with light.
–Marie Howe, New York State Poet Laureate 2012, author of The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
Kahn presents her material with a sure-handedness, restraint, and a lack of sentimentality that propels us through. And Zoe proves herself to become gradually indomitable. What a privilege for the reader to witness Zoe’s slow, sure climb to redemption. This is a chapbook to read and share.
–Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno, author of Slamming Open the Door
Speaking through several voices, sometimes in fragments, in images both slant and direct, these brave, powerful, elegant poems bear witness, and at the end of the book they speak of peace.
–Lynn Levin, author of Miss Plastique, 2013
B.E. Kahn involves us viscerally… shows us Zoe, a survivor who’s ready to sing: to accuse, yes, and to mourn her lost childhood, but also—most compellingly—to exult.
–Nathalie F. Anderson, Author of Quiver, 2010
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NIGHT SPARK: THE ZOE POEMS
by B. E. Kahn
$14, paper
B.E. Kahn, Pushcart Prize Nominee, is a grant recipient of both the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and the Pew Fellowships in the Arts. She has been awarded numerous prizes for her poetry. Her poems have appeared in Harrisburg Review, Apiary, Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and the online Tupelo Press Poetry Project among other publications. A retired school teacher and speech therapist, she lives in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania and has taught poetry to intergenerational, interfaith groups. She is a member of the 34th Street Poets Collective. B.E. Kahn is the author of three chapbooks: Spring Apples Silver Birch, 2008, Greenleaf Press; Landscapes of Light, 2010, Poets Wear Prada Press; and now—Night Spark: The Zoe Poems, forthcoming in August 2013, Finishing Line Press. She is a Finalist for the Mad Poets Joie de Vivre Book Competition 2013.
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