The Gate at Visby - Deena Linett
Linett is a poet of rapture, a mind-traveler of lands extracted from time and history; she reaffirms the poet's quest to envision as the first human being, and to name it in such a way that it shimmers like mirrors of legend and reality, sparkling and blazing with intensity and insistent momentum. Her content flutters from place to place, probing with artful forms, while still stalking the truth....
-Judith Harris
ISBN 978-09816752512011$16.95DEENA LINETT, retired Professor Emerita of English at Montclair State University, lives now on the Gulf Coast of Florida where she grew up. She is the author of four novels, most recently The Men in My Life, and four previous collections of poems, including Translucent When Fired: New and Selected Poems. Her many honors include two residencies at Yaddo and two at the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers.
Linett is a poet of rapture, a mind-traveler of lands extracted from time and history; she reaffirms the poet's quest to envision as the first human being, and to name it in such a way that it shimmers like mirrors of legend and reality, sparkling and blazing with intensity and insistent momentum. Her content flutters from place to place, probing with artful forms, while still stalking the truth....
-Judith Harris
ISBN 978-09816752512011$16.95DEENA LINETT, retired Professor Emerita of English at Montclair State University, lives now on the Gulf Coast of Florida where she grew up. She is the author of four novels, most recently The Men in My Life, and four previous collections of poems, including Translucent When Fired: New and Selected Poems. Her many honors include two residencies at Yaddo and two at the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers.
Linett is a poet of rapture, a mind-traveler of lands extracted from time and history; she reaffirms the poet's quest to envision as the first human being, and to name it in such a way that it shimmers like mirrors of legend and reality, sparkling and blazing with intensity and insistent momentum. Her content flutters from place to place, probing with artful forms, while still stalking the truth....
-Judith Harris
ISBN 978-09816752512011$16.95DEENA LINETT, retired Professor Emerita of English at Montclair State University, lives now on the Gulf Coast of Florida where she grew up. She is the author of four novels, most recently The Men in My Life, and four previous collections of poems, including Translucent When Fired: New and Selected Poems. Her many honors include two residencies at Yaddo and two at the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers.
