Getting Ready to Travel by Llewellyn McKernan
$14.99
Getting Ready to Travel is a short volume, but it speaks volumes in its own elusive, allusive, illusive, and paradoxical way. Imagine a book co-authored by Mother Goose and William Blake and you’ll get an idea of it. Better yet, give it time and a flexible mind, and enjoy its slippery riches.
–George Ella Lyon, Kentucky Poet Laureate (2015-2016) author of Many-Storied House
Using rhythmic devices that have an almost (but not quite) childlike quality, and explosive visions that are too thoroughly grounded in the real world to be surreal, Llewellyn McKernan’s Getting Ready to Travel leads us through a bracing experience in rhyme and imagery. To take this journey with her is to make a surprising and deep spiritual preparation for our own life journeys.
–Meredith Sue Willis, author of Out of the Mountains, Oradell at Sea, and many more.
I touch all the hills I used to know. // Black elephants I called them. // Now they are snow. What to do with such a vision? Prepare to be astonished as you embark on ultimate travel where life, death, and purpose are the consideration, not leisure. The poems themselves are deftly woven with rhymes and surprising line breaks that loosen formality and claimed my attention. There’s also an understated eroticism lacing some that give their surreal wrestlings a piquancy both unique and compelling. [If you have only one trip to take this year, this is the one.]
–Marc Harshman, Poet Laureate of West Virginia
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Getting Ready to Travel
by Llewellyn McKernan
$14.99, paper
978-1-63534-119-5
2017
Llewellyn McKernan is a poet and teacher who has lived and worked in West Virginia for so long she considers it home. She has a Masters in Creative Writing from Brown University and has been an adjunct English professor at Marshall University, St. Mary’s College, and the University of Arkansas. Published works include six poetry books for adults: Short and Simple Annals, Many Waters, Llewellyn McKernan’s Greatest Hits, Pencil Memory, The Sound of One Tree Falling,and Getting Ready To Travel. Poetry books for children include More Songs of Gladness, Bird Alphabet, This is the Day, and This is the Night.
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