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No. of pages: 28
No. of copies: 250
Year of publication: 2008 |
Primo Pensiero
by Jacqueline Gens |
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FEATURED CONTENTS
Year of The Earth Rat
Visitation
The Butterfly Lover
Celebration for A Lemon Potential Malignancy
Primo Pensiero
Nearing Summer Solstice
Wild Leeks
Starlight
Uproar's Music
Visiting Tzintsunzan
The View Outside my Door
Back Story
After Sappho
From Art Brut |
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Dear Jacqueline,
It's early morning, predawn on the day of the first practice in the
still unfinished temple. We'll do a morning Sang outside and then a Tara Tsog
at 10 and finally Prajna Paramita in the afternoon.I got beautiful poetry
book on my return from Brazil, wonderful feeling, the texture of it all soft
and handmade. And there's Machig on the cover! Congratulations on the
completion of it and your creative expression. Wonderful.
--Tsultrim Allione |
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Dear Jacqui:
This is to say thank you for my signed and numbered copy of your
handsome chapbook on beautiful handmade paper. I was interested in the
poems, their attributions, esp. the poem dedicated to Allen G. and the
tender poem about your mother. (It seems to me that her life in
Shanghai is fruitful material for future poems.) I've never seen leeks
growing wild, tho I know the wild onion, & will now be on the alert for
them. First thought is indeed the jumping-off place for poems, tho it
may drift away or be discarded once the whole poem emerges.
Congratulations on this, the first of what I trust will be more to
come.
--Maxine Kumin |
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Jacqueline: I hope you still open NEC mail....I want to thank you for
the gift copy of your poems...email might be the worst way available on
the planet for thanking a person for their voice, but I adore the voice
and mind in these poems...it is always a pleasure to encounter a poet
writing about the world I move through; it doesn't often happen.
--Blessings, Kevin Harvey |
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Dear Jacqueline,
Your book just arrived and it is Terrific! and such a lovely edition,
I sat down and read it straight through, a rare act for me.
The particulars of emotions, and situations, and dreams--
so generously accessible.
Many Thanks!
-- Joanne Kyger |
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Hello Jacqueline
Your book arrived and it's magnificent. I love the poems. I also love
the way it's all packaged. Thanks for thinking of me-- this is a
treasure I will pick up often. Very soon I'll send you my book, THE
BUDDHA'S DIAMONDS.
--Carolyn Marsden |
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