The Clarity Of Troubled Love by N. A’Yara Stein
$14.00
“Understated yet vast, A’yara Stein‘s poetry speaks of the un-ness of things material and all-ness of the heart’s voice, spoken as the one true reality. Sensual in nature, this collection of poems attempts to temper the hardened will with the flames of desire, while accommodating for wonder and hope as prospects for a better understanding.”
–Gordon Purkis, Editor of Shoe Music Press
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
Ayara Stein’s poems are packed tight with sharp observations and vivid insights. Each poem takes us on another journey of discovery ending with some unexpected truth. She moves deftly across a range of iconic characters, from Hansel and Gretel to Judas, from Randall Jarrell to Ophelia. What holds these bittersweet poems together is the unflinching empathy of the narrator as she examines the mysteries of the heart—how it breaks, how it mends, how it breaks again.
–Jim Daniels
She is a woman inspired to show the many sides of her life, the tender and the tough, and she will not be daunted by: mystery, wilderness, weather, the dailiness of life, or how “with affection darkness calls our name.” Don’t miss these poems. They prove the universe is full of batteries and love.
-Heather Ross Miller
Always clear and confident in diction, N. Ayara Stein’s poems report conditions in the weather of the self often not noticed in systems found over the usual poetic landscapes. She also possesses knowledge only a good poet can come by: that death is a crank call, that desire is a minefield, that confusion between lovers is not disaster. What underlies the wisdom of these poems is N. Ayara Stein’s readiness to discover the word’s sufficiency to awaken a truth that hid itself until the poem began. She brings her reader to places where such wisdom is the air she breathes.
—Michael Heffernan, At the Bureau of Divine Music (Wayne State University Press)
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
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The Clarity Of Troubled Love
by N. A’Yara Stein
$14, paper
N. A’Yara Stein was a multiple nominee for the past few years for the Pushcart Prize as well as a finalist in the 2011 National Poetry Series for her manuscript, Saudade. She holds an MFA from the University of Arkansas and is a grant recipient of the Michigan Art Council and the Arkansas Arts Council, among other honors. The former editor of the arts quarterly Gypsy Blood Review, she’s recently published in Verse Wisconsin, The Mayo Review, Ping Pong: The Journal of the Henry Miller Library, The Delinquent (UK), among others. She lives near Chicago with her sons and teaches at Purdue University North Central.
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