Border Songs: A Conversation in Poems

Ona Gritz

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"The poems in Border Songs," writes notable memoirist and poet, Stephen Kuusisto, "offer more than a conversation between poets: they're conversant, knowledgeable, informed by eros, loss, delight, curiosity, and intimate wisdom." In this collection, Ona Gritz and Daniel Simpson create a dialogue in poems that surveys the borders between connection and longing, having and lacking, believing and doubting, and living and dying. "That these voices, against the odds, have found one another is a sort of miracle," says award winning poet, Renee Ashley. "That they are harmonious and comforting speaks volumes of our larger humanity and of our singular loves."

Book Details

Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Publish Date: Sep 8th, 2017
Pages: 46
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.11in - 0.15lb
EAN: 9781635342895
Categories: • General

About the Author

Gritz, Ona: - Ona Gritz's poetry collection, Geode, was a finalist for the 2013 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Bellevue Literary Review, Seneca Review, Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability and many other journals and anthologies. Ona's chapbook of poems, Left Standing, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2005. Her memoir, On the Whole: a story of mothering and disability is available from Shebooks, an imprint of short ebooks by women, and as an audiobook from Audible.com. Ona recently ended a twelve-year tenure as a columnist for Literary Mama. She also served, along with her husband Daniel Simpson, as poetry editor for Referential Magazine.

Simpson, Daniel: - Daniel Simpson's collection of poems, School for the Blind, was published by Poets Wear Prada in 2014. His work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Cortland Review, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Passager, The Atlanta Review, The Louisville Review and The New York Times, among others. Cinquo Puntos Press published his essay "Line Breaks the Way I See Them" and four of his poems in Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, now in its second printing. The recipient of a Fellowship in Literature from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, he served, along with his wife, Ona Gritz, as poetry editor for Referential Magazine, an online literary journal. His blog, Inside the Invisible, can be found at insidetheinvisible.wordpress.com.

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Praise for this book

The poems in Border Songs offer more than a conversation between poets: they're conversant, knowledgeable, informed by eros, loss, delight, curiosity, and intimate wisdom. This collection stays long after you've stopped reading to meditate alone about body and soul.

--Stephen Kuusisto

Love's not easy. Belonging is even harder. And true poetry's more difficult, I swear, than love and belonging combined. The speakers in these poems have cultivated a rich patience, have, separately, established sonorous, intelligent lives full of tenderness and nuance and passed them along to us in an embrace. One tells us, "...the trees / turned into notebooks so the story could change." The other: "I'm just getting to love / this world for what it is, a flawed place / with its subway platforms overlooking the third rail . . . ." And change and love is what this book is about, risk and quiet transformation, a deeper change than drama. That these voices, against the odds, have found one another is a sort of miracle, that they are harmonious and comforting speaks volumes of our larger humanity and of our singular loves. True poems. Reading this book is "like hearing music in a cathedral."

--Renée Ashley