Omega’s Garden by Rosalind Brenner
$14.00
“Rosalind Brenner’s poems look to the natural world for redemption. Many are tuned to a stuttering rhythm that both displays her gift for description and befits the broken human relationships this book examines: “green life lambent sun salt air” sound just lovely; and then: “In a shapely V / the geese leave / too.” Throughout, a first-person speaker learns, again and again, that “I slept with a thing I misconstrued / as tenderness.”
–Julie Sheehan-Professor, Creative Writing, MFA, Stony Brook Southampton; Poet: “Bar Book” and others; Winner of four prestigious awards for poetry, including Barnard Women Poets Prize.
The poems in Omega’s Garden are ruminations on getting through life one day at a time. Here is a world full of broken promises, failed relationships and loss. But it is also a world where forgiveness prevails in order to create a thematic expanse where roses grow and geese create “a choir /trumpeting huzzahs.” This new world needs to flourish – no wonder the speaker creates a colloquial grace to every line.
–Kevin Pilkington
I’ve been following Rosalind Brenner‘s work for many years. It feels like some small justice has been brought to the world now that we have this collection of poems between covers. Omega’s Garden chronicles injustice in ways few poets can. The injustice of life, mates, parents, and the self—it’s all here in burning emotion and arresting language. Redemption usually comes with survival, but Brenner has achieved more. She has both made it through and shared her journey with us via these fine poems.
–Ron Egatz, author of Beneath Stars Long Extinct
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
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Omega’s Garden
by Rosalind Brenner
$14, paper
Rosalind Brenner holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems have been published in The Cortland Review; Poetry Bay; The Southampton Review; Long Island Sounds; Walt’s Corner in The Long Islander; Taproot Journal; Performance Poets Association Literary Review; Ontologica; Whispers and Shouts, an anthology of Long Island women’s poetry; and The Arroyo Literary Review; among others. Rosalind’s poetry is included in Cave Moon Press’ anthology of poems about food, Broken Circles, for their hunger project. She has produced readings from this work to benefit food pantries and also has done readings from her books in NYC and
Long Island venues, including as a poet/actor in Poetry Repertory Theater. She is producing a reading for the Pollock Centenary at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in August 2012. She won Honorable Mention in Long Island Quarterly’s Gertrude Stein “look-alike” contest, second prize in The North Sea Poetry Scene poetry contest and two Honorable Mentions in The New Millennium national contest, one for essay, one for poetry. Rosalind’s two books are “Omega’s Garden,” by Finishing Line Press and “All That’s Left,” by Art House Press.
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
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