Dive into Woman on Canvas, Jessica's upcoming poetry collection that contrasts spiritual and scientific perspectives on human life. Woman on Canvas tackles the complex duality of human existence. It skillfully uses stark human experiences—mothers' reactions to school shootings, the horrors of war, the trauma of sexual assault, the scars of imprisonment, and the pain of social isolation—to illustrate the ongoing conflict between spiritual and scientific worldviews.
Beyond Free Verse: A Return to Form
In an age dominated by free verse, Woman on Canvas stands apart. This collection celebrates the enduring beauty of traditional poetic forms, featuring meticulously crafted villanelles, sonnets, terza rimas, and ballads. Ideal for readers with progressive religious views and anti-war sentiments, it offers both depth of thought and classical artistry.
A poem from Woman on Canvas
Reading All Twenty-four Books of Homer’s Iliad
Reading Homer’s Iliad helped me see what
Dreams had shadowed. Bunches of bees—now grape-like
Clusters under flowering saw palmettoes
Pregnant with pollen.
Nameless birds—anhingas ensconced in mangroves,
Cocoa eyes surrounded by turquoise mating
Rings, extending wings to the sun as they dry
Ebony feathers.
But his epic stalls in a fifteen-book long
Saga of repetitive death as soldiers
Fall when speared through liver or groin, their bodies
Tossed onto pyres,
Names and hometowns set down in dactyls. Filling
Homer’s endless litanies: aged fathers,
Greek and Trojan, left with no sons to pour out
Final libations.
At last, muscles knotted with ennui, I checked
Yet another book off my list of must-reads,
Thinking war a pottage of grueling boredom
Peppered with carnage
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