Cord Color brings to birth a world of timeless bonds and elemental feelings.Victoria Korth‘s special grace is to make these vivid and immediate, leading us to sink into our bodies as we read, to know our bones, muscles, sinews, and to feel the pulsing life in nature- the feral fox, the rooted tree – as our own. Each poem is beautifully shaped and delicately lit with emotion, penetrating the reader’s spirit and delighting the mind.
–Ernestine McHugh, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Religion, Humanities Department, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. Author of Love and Honor in the Himalayas: Coming to Know Another Culture.
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
“As the title suggests, the poems in Cord Color are life-lines and song, or life-lines of song. They celebrate the exterior world of nature while probing, beautifully, the dimly-lit intricacies of the self. Victoria Korth’s voice is intimate, lyrical, and wholly her own—flip to “Crimson King” “Interrogation” or “Milton’s Hands” for a taste. Cord Color is a book to savor.”
–Ralph Black, Author of “Turning Over the Earth”
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
Cord Color is a splendid collection of poems about shapes and transformations. The poems reach out, pull back, transport us into different angles of vision. All is strange pressures and presences. Sounds, too, transform each other, as in “January Second” and the truly lovely “The Most Spiritual.” Korth writes, “I rush ahead to sit still.” Read her poems, reread, and be stilled and deepened.
–Dick Allen, author of This Shadowy Place, Present Vanishing, and other noted books of poetry, Connecticut State Poet Laureate (2010-2015)
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
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