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(More customer reviews)This poetry collection is deeply moving for the modern person that wants to imagine life's possibilities. Tester's voice soothes the soul... her poetry is palpable in it's imagery. In one poem she takes an everyday object and imagines what the history may have been, another she lets her mind wander through her imagination as she drives down a scenic highway, while yet another relates a most painful memory of angst and suffering from true events in her life.
This poetry book is one I count among a few as my true poetic loves. I'm looking forward to reading her second volume of poetry.
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Victoria Edwards Tester speaks as a woman who knows what it feels like to be censored and who defiantly resists self-censorship. Tester's poems listen to the past and to creatures, land, and ghosts who most people can't hear at all. Her poems are rooted in New Mexico history but they transcend regional boundaries. Her work in an attentive intermingling of imagination and intuition, weaving together landscape, choice, accident, love and tragedy. It was after I saw the saints behind their iron grillesand even the children weaving their tiny crossestorn from the laughter of winterjasmine into the saints' cages,that I decided to leave my prison of grief.When I opened my mouth an exquisite white spidercrawled into the world on her eight legs.--from "Chimayo"In his introduction to Miracles of Sainted Earth, the inaugural volume for the University of New Mexico Press's Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series, Series Editor V. B. Price writes of poet Victoria Edwards Tester: "I find her work so emotionally compelling because she belongs to a community of poets heard more as voices from catacombs, tramp steamers, and long marches than as voices of orthodoxy, either tenured or coolly marginal. Latin America, occupied Celtic Europe, Welsh-Irish America, Apache and Comanche territory – she speaks from those long views and sorrows more than others I can think of...the poems in this volume are free of predictability and marks of rehearsal, free of critical templates, liberated by attachments to real places almost nobody knows, and by a vatic intermingling of imagination and intuition... ...the poems in this collection listen to the past and to creatures, land, and ghosts who most people can't hear at all...she links her present life, the lives of her ancestors, the world beyond human nature, and the spirit of history and its unfolding in biography, with her spiritual love of the finite. The aesthetic excitement of her poems demonstrates as vividly as possible what we all know as a matter of common sense, but don't really pay deep attention to – that what happens in the present is a result of countless chances, choices, mishaps, aberrations, mysteries and tragedies of other lives interacting with landscape, climate, and historical predicament."
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