Conversations with Athena at Mieza by Silvia Scheibli

$14.99

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This Silvia Scheibli adventure forged with graceful undulations of color-quenched and spirit-ready sensuality invokes language that leaps from the page, from the soul of the world into new brain time where a ferocious linguistic revolution resides throughout her call to the natural and sacred CONVERSATIONS WITH ATHENA AT MIEZA.
–Steve Sleboda
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Athena lives in these poems and in the voice of the poet who resuscitates her in conversation by saying, “Your birth was my birth/shaping my disposition/my enchantment/my infinite face.” Centered the way the seed of a fruit is centered in its stone and protected by its delicious flesh, Scheibli’s poems don’t hesitate to entice us into taking that first bite and renewing the taste of its centuries’ old freshness.

–Paul B. Roth, The Bitter Oleander Press

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John Keats has his nightingale and Silvia Scheibli has Athena, both of which become vehicles that allow each poet to express what is essential. Similar to Keats addressing his nightingale, Scheibli converses with Athena to transcend the temporal in order to expand spiritually. Through Scheibli’s imaginative and precise lexicon the reader is able to participate in this spiritual blossoming where the past becomes the present: “I was very young, Athena, / my hair was glossy / my skin as tender as coriander / I searched in sand and / rain for my destiny” and the present becomes infinite: “Each breath is like / a blue horse / prancing into the future.”

–Alan Britt, author of Dream Highway Towson University

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Conversations with Athena at Mieza

by Silvia Scheibli

$14,99, paper

978-1-64662-945-9

2022

Silvia Scheibli has served as judge for the 2017 Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award. In 2015 she was invited to Ecuador in a cultural exchange of poets between the United States and Ecuador touring and reciting in the Amazonas as well as Quito, Babajoyo and Guayaquil with Alan Britt and Steve Barfield. Besides publishing eight books of poems including, The Moon Rises in the Rattlesnake’s Mouth, by Bitter Oleander Press, Under the Loquat Tree in 2002 by Vida Publishing and Parabola Dreams co-authored with Alan Britt in 2013 by Bitter Oleander Press, she is the editor and publisher of Cypress Review and CypressBooks since 1980.

Graduate of the University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida, in the late 60’s she studied with Duane Locke, founder of the Immanentist Movement in poetry. Along with Paul Roth, Alan Britt, Steve Barfield and others, the Immanentist movement still thrives today in the United States, Europe and South America and everywhere where a visionary approach focuses on primordial nature similar to the surrealism and Deep Image poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Karl Krolow and others. Immanentist poems are embedded with passion and inspiration and loved for their universal Duende qualities.

She has published poems in Cholla Needles, Osiris, Bitter Oleander, Ann Arbor Review, Black Moon, The Midwest Quarterly, The January Review and The Raw Seed Review among others. She is an enthusiastic photographer and birder living near the borderlands in southeast Arizona where jaguars, bobcats, coatimundi, white-tailed deer and javelina move freely.

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