Moods of the Dream Fog by Wendy Gist

 

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Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]

 

“Wendy Gist‘s new chapbook is a celebration of the body and the spirit it comprises; physical, brutal, earthy, elegant. Her poetry speaks to the transformative power of love and language, and love in language that propels Moods of the Dream Fog forward.”

–Chris Campanioni, Poet, recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize, Professor of English literature and creative writing at Baruch College, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Pace University.

 

“Between shades of different colors. ‘In the foam of timeless now.’ I would love to prolong my sojourn within the poetic realm created by Wendy Gist. With powerful imagery and a highly effective use of language, Moods of the Dream Fog offers a rare and rich read.”

–Yuan Changming, PhD, Editor of Poetry Pacific

 

“Wendy Gist mixes words and imagery like an artist fully inspired by the palette of the American Southwest. What startles most is how the human presence, never an interloper to this landscape, inspires fantastic cross-pollination. A naturalist extends her ‘ostrich neck’ while a water current weaves like ‘loose braid/below’ and the ubiquitous dragonflies–some habanero orange, others ‘blue/as jelly shoes’– also ‘hover black and white as law books.'”

–Mary McLaughlin Slechta, author of the poetry collection, Wreckage on a Watery Moon (FootHills Publishing), Associate Editor of The Comstock Review

 

“Wendy Gist‘s latest work can only be the result of an inspired life, one in which gas stations, ice cream Sundays and husbands become momentous — deeply meaningful yet rooted in small moments. Her poems share the knowledge that fullness exists independent of time, within the moment.”

–Ana Maria Caballero, recipient of Colombia’s José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize for her book Entre domingo y domingo (“From Sunday to Sunday”).

 

Moods of the Dream Fog wants to become close friends with the reader. These pages of poetry look its reader in the eyes just long enough for poet and reader to become lovers merging intimate waters. The poems, with a strangely Eastern ease, desire that together we experience breath, tactile trance, a light-flecked desert with big rigs and bull frogs, stink beetles and a freckle-faced cow. The readers’ United States and disparate attitudes become citizens of the Southwest. Whether from the North, South, East, or West, readers will find themselves asking, when Moods of the Dream Fog is put down, “Am I from around here?”

–Rich Murphy author of Americana, Voyeur, and Apple in the Monkey Tree. Prize Americana winner and Gival Press Poetry Award

 

“Wendy Gist writes clear poems–clear like vodka, and with the same kind of kick.”

—Post-Corbett award- winner Rick Stansberger, MFA, Professor of English at Western New Mexico University, author of the poetry collection Glass Hat (Louisiana State University Press)

 

“Like the changing of the seasons, each shade of Moods of the Dream Fog holds its own beauty: in everyday pleasures, memories and even sadness. Wendy Gist has shown her range as a poet, pulling at readers’ emotions through her artistic vision and expression of words.”

–Ginger Beck, former Editor of Gravel Literary Journal, writer and teacher.

 

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Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]