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Cathedral of the Hand by Dianna MacKinnon Henning

$14.49

 

Cathedral of the Hand, a new collection of poems, Henning’s third book of poems, reveals her love of nature and her Vermont origins. These are hard won poems that have steeped long in the heart before being brought to life.
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“Some work feels as if it were made from music. Dianna Henning’s Cathedral of the Hand flows onto the page as a kind of lingual energy. The tone throughout is about perception, and so subtle is the word choice and placement, we almost miss the formal freedom that makes it work so well. With a simple and beautiful technique Henning uses water as metaphor for all that’s moving, changing, and renewed. In her process is a true song of all that’s possible in the life of an artist. These poems stay with us as a testament to technical assurance and a confidence that modesty in language is the most lasting and enduring form of poetry.”

–Grace Cavalieri, producer/host, “The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress”

 

“Dianna Henning‘s latest book reminds me of why I was always happy to receive her poems for my journal Visions International and was proud to publish her previous book Broken Bone Tongue a few years ago. She continues to impress with the same high quality. Among the vast volumes of verse this Cathedral of the Hand stands out above all but a few of the others.”

–Bradley R. Strahan, Editor & Publisher of Visions International

 

“No object or landscape goes unnoticed in this reverent collection of poems. Dianna Henning evokes—and invokes—nature as a means of spanning distance across relationships, across time. Henning doesn’t shy away from the physical details of an apprentice butcher or a trapped bird, or a dry creek “skeletal with rocks.” Cathedral of the Hand explores hunger and the natural world—human and animal—through the poet’s keen sense of mystery and her focus on the self as well as self-in-the-world, “that spot of bird, / singular in its journey.”

–Lynn Pedersen, Author of “Tiktaalik, Adieu”

Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]

 

Cathedral of the Hand

by Dianna MacKinnon Henning

$14.49, paper

Ms. Henning was born and raised in Vermont. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Published in, in part: The Kentucky Review, The Main Street Rag, Crazyhorse, The Lullwater Review, California Quarterly, Poetry International, Fugue, The Tule Review, The Asheville Poetry Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Red Rock Review, South Dakota Review, Hawai’i Pacific Review and The Seattle Review. Twice nominated for a Pushcart. Won fellowships to Bread Loaf and Dublin Writers’ Center. Finalist in Aesthetica’s Creative Writing Award in the UK, published in their Annual 2014.

Dianna taught for California Poets in the Schools, and through the William James Association’s Prison Arts Project. She also participated in a California Council for the Humanities Stories project and taught creative writing at the Susanville Rancheria where she worked with Maidu, Pit River and Paiute writers. She has been a recipient of several California Arts Council grants which allowed her to teach creative writing at Folsom Prison, the Stockton Youth Authority, Stockton, CA and at Diamond View School in Susanville CA.

Dianna lives in Lassen County on six acres with her husband Kam and her malamute Sakari. She facilitates The Thompson Peak Writers’ Workshop in Lassen County.
E-Address: gammonmackinnon@diannahenning.com

Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]

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