Time Capsule - Gordon, Nancy
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Time Capsule is a debut poetry chapbook about love lost and love kept, the challenges of aging, worries over climate change, escapades with dogs, broken friendships, and art and literature-in essence, poems as varied as life. Personal experiences are used for a range of styles and stories. One poem recalls dancing in various forms and with various partners. Death is addressed in a poem in which the speaker plays cards with its agent. There is a serious sonnet and a lighthearted one; a ghazal and a villanelle; and free-range forms that all capture this poet's authentic, funny, and thoughtful voice.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Time Capsule is a debut poetry chapbook about love lost and love kept, the challenges of aging, worries over climate change, escapades with dogs, broken friendships, and art and literature-in essence, poems as varied as life. Personal experiences are used for a range of styles and stories. One poem recalls dancing in various forms and with various partners. Death is addressed in a poem in which the speaker plays cards with its agent. There is a serious sonnet and a lighthearted one; a ghazal and a villanelle; and free-range forms that all capture this poet's authentic, funny, and thoughtful voice.
Autorenporträt
Nancy Gordon was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1938, and grew up in Chestertown and AuSable Forks, New York. She graduated from Wellesley College, earned a Master of Arts in Teaching from Wesleyan University, and taught high-school English for years, including a year teaching in New Zealand on a Fulbright-Hayes exchange grant. Her marriage in her mid thirties took her to Miami, Florida, where she earned a law degree from the University of Miami School of Law in 1982, and then practiced law until 2012. In the years since her retirement she has been writing poems and enjoying poetry workshops.