The Music In It: Adele Kenny's Poetry Blog: A Lightness, A Thirst, or Nothing At All

Saturday, July 5, 2014

A Lightness, A Thirst, or Nothing At All

I'm so happy to share the news that a publication date of December 7, 2014 has been set for my new book, a collection of 53 prose poems! The book is already available for generously discounted pre-orders at Amazon.com and is up on my publisher's website Welcome Rain Publishers.

After taking this holiday weekend off (4th of July weekend), I'm going to begin the process of final tweaking and editing. So ... I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, here in the U.S. and abroad, and there will be a new prompt for you next Saturday.

Here's the book trailer!

From the Publisher's Website

"Intensely focused, compressed, and sharp-edged, these prose poems by Adele Kenny take the spiritual journey into heightened awareness of experience, place, and identity. Deliberate fragments, the language of dreams, and an occasional nod to the surreal combine with Kenny’s signature elements of striking imagery, lyrical precision, and compelling immediacy to inform an enhanced vision of the ways in which the interior life intersects with the outside world. These poems startle, surprise, and tell us things about ourselves that we didn’t know."

ISBN: 9781566493963

Hardcover

80 Pages

15 comments:

Jamie MorrisJuly 5, 2014 at 10:00 AM
BRILLIANT, Adele! Congratulations! I just pre-ordered and can't wait to meet your new book in person.
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Rich MandelJuly 6, 2014 at 7:57 AM
Great news, Adele. Congratulations! I'll pre-order this week and look forward to December's publication date.
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Bob's MustangsJuly 6, 2014 at 10:17 AM
Congratulations! Great news.
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Kathy ShawJuly 6, 2014 at 2:02 PM
Congratulations, Adele! I love the poem in the trailer, and the trailer, like the poem, is superb. Can't wait to read the book.
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Violet N.July 6, 2014 at 11:24 PM
Congratulations! I love the poem in the trailer and Nic Sebastian's reading of it.
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Máire Ó Cathail (Ireland)July 7, 2014 at 8:42 AM
Congratulations from Ireland, Adele! Lovely news, and thanks for letting us know. The trailer is wonderful. What Matters is a glorious book and I expect this new collection will be the same.
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Carol R.July 8, 2014 at 9:23 AM
Wonderful news! Congratulations!
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Anirvan S.July 10, 2014 at 10:41 AM
Many good congratulations to you and thank you for this very nice blog. I am writing from India and find many things here to help me with my poetry.
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THE MUSIC IN IT

"The Music In It" is a blog for anyone interested in poets and poetry—the craft and the community.

The title comes from Countee Cullen, who wrote: "My poetry, I should think, has become the way of my giving out whatever music is in me."

Look for a new prompt or guest blogger every couple of weeks or so, usually posted on weekends, and check the archives for older prompts and posts. Be sure to click on the poetry-related links in the sidebar.

Thanks for your visits and comments.

Enjoy!

ABOUT WIND OVER STONES

From Renée Ashley

Compressed and brilliant in their philosophical and imagistic scintillations, the prose poems in Adele Kenny’s Wind Over Stones are of one piece in both voice and intensity of gaze. Through each artwork she has chosen as her lens, she seems to be saying, If we look hard enough and long enough, and with just the right slant of light, we can see through these paintings into ourselves. Her vision embodies, without presumption, the knowledge that, as John Muir told us, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” Kenny tells us, “This kind of purity comes to us without intention—in ordinary things that are anything but ordinary….” She paints it for us herself: “A flurry of bats becomes the Milky Way, and we make no pretense of understanding the infinite (deep inside us), our need to become nothing before we unname ourselves and disappear.” Everything is connected, and through the language of fairytale, examination, and prayer—the same language, after all—each of Kenny’s poems is a gem in a garland of gems.

Publisher's Comments

This unique collection of ekphrastic prose poems continues Adele Kenny’s reflections on the spiritual condition of being. Despite loss and change, she looks into the dark without flinching and finds light among the shadows.

Using ekphrasis as a rhetorical device and combined with Kenny’s signature elements of technical proficiency, hauntingly lucid imagery, and compelling immediacy, these poems filter and record experience in startling ways as they journey across aging’s inevitable arc. Hardwired by Kenny’s understanding of the human spirit, these poems offer us insights into the healing power of attention and awareness.

QR codes are included in this book so that readers can access the paintings that inspired the poems while they are reading. This interactive element enables readers to enjoy a multi-dimensional experience through their smart phones with cameras or free QR code scanning applications on their mobile devices.

ABOUT NOT ASKING WHAT IF

"Kenny has written some of the most hauntingly beautiful spiritual haiku I’ve ever read—haiku that take us as close to divinity as human language can get. Her haiku are spare and commanding, rich in imagery, and layered with meaning." (Alex Pinto, Tiferet)

“Traditional haiku, environmental haiku, psychological haiku, spiritual haiku—Adele Kenny has done them all. Her haiku are spare and powerful, always nuanced with rich symbolism. Her images and juxtapositions make readers hold their breath in wonder.” (Malachy McCourt, Author of A Monk Swimming)

Review by Emily Vogel in Ragazine:
http://ragazine.cc/2016/09/more-books-more-reviews/

ABOUT WHAT MATTERS

"These poems are eloquent, candid, straightforward and genuine." (Robert Pinsky, U.S. Poet Laureate, 1997-2000)

"In Adele Kenny's finely wrought meditations on grief and loss, she never forgets that she's a maker of poems. What Matters straddles two of the exigencies of the human condition: diminishment and endurance. It abounds with poems that skillfully earn their sentiments." (Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry)

"These are poems that come to (poetic) grips with the issues of grief, fear, and death ... focused in a new and strong way." (Gerald Stern, National Book Award in Poetry)

Click Here to Read the Tiferet Review of What Matters

Click Here to Read Michael T. Young's Interview

Click Here to Read Michael T. Young's Review

Click Here to "Attend" the Virtual Salon for What Matters