The interplay of the written word and the painted image converge in
Ann Holmes' skillfully crafted poetry. Holmes gets inside the
action of a poem, imagining what it is like to be the atomic bomb
in Hiroshima, a goat in Greece, spring beginning, acloud refusing
to change its form. Love, loss, wonder, and the quirkiness of life
leap off the page.
""How rich a palette, poet-artist Ann Holmes' brings to her
second collection "A Leaf Called Socrates." How powerful is her
artist pen as she approaches biblical and ancient figures as
intimates. "I glaze a Bosch bubble/around Adam and Eve/so they may
stay in the garden." With engines of irony and honesty, her poem
"When I knew," creates a loving reproach to intimate family
encounters. Her poems, revealing human frailties, glow nonetheless,
with color and affection. After her sojourn as an artist in Japan,
she evokes a place where 'Seven round holes/one above the
other/"exist, "as if the moon/ dropped out/ ofthe sky." In this new
collection of poetry, her language, phrase and imagery paint
emotional hues to reveal people in their flaws and creative
gifts.""
-Lou Barrett, author of "Connecting Flights, Doors Gates" and
"Portals, Clotheslines"
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