Translucent when Fired: Poems Selected and New - Deena Linett
Kaleidoscopic and brilliantly lit, Translucent When Fired: Poems New and Selected displays Deena Linett’s talent through selections from her first three volumes along with her splendid newer work. The poems travel throughout eras and lands, from Paris to Sarajevo, Edinburgh to Dublin, Half Moon Bay to the Everglades, and they traverse territory from the mythological to the hard facts of history. Her geographical coordinates anchor the shifting mental and emotional states that are the underlying subjects of her lyrical meditations. Linett’s lush imagery (from paintings to kilns) and romantic attachments (and uncouplings, too) become “the clay” she commits ‘to fire,’ guiding thoughts, perceptions, and experiences to transformational moments where they “melt into something hard and new/long-lasting.” These subtle poems “let light through”—dazzling her readers in the process.
—Molly Peacock
ISBN 978-0-9976305-4-12017$18.95DEENA 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.
Kaleidoscopic and brilliantly lit, Translucent When Fired: Poems New and Selected displays Deena Linett’s talent through selections from her first three volumes along with her splendid newer work. The poems travel throughout eras and lands, from Paris to Sarajevo, Edinburgh to Dublin, Half Moon Bay to the Everglades, and they traverse territory from the mythological to the hard facts of history. Her geographical coordinates anchor the shifting mental and emotional states that are the underlying subjects of her lyrical meditations. Linett’s lush imagery (from paintings to kilns) and romantic attachments (and uncouplings, too) become “the clay” she commits ‘to fire,’ guiding thoughts, perceptions, and experiences to transformational moments where they “melt into something hard and new/long-lasting.” These subtle poems “let light through”—dazzling her readers in the process.
—Molly Peacock
ISBN 978-0-9976305-4-12017$18.95DEENA 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.
Kaleidoscopic and brilliantly lit, Translucent When Fired: Poems New and Selected displays Deena Linett’s talent through selections from her first three volumes along with her splendid newer work. The poems travel throughout eras and lands, from Paris to Sarajevo, Edinburgh to Dublin, Half Moon Bay to the Everglades, and they traverse territory from the mythological to the hard facts of history. Her geographical coordinates anchor the shifting mental and emotional states that are the underlying subjects of her lyrical meditations. Linett’s lush imagery (from paintings to kilns) and romantic attachments (and uncouplings, too) become “the clay” she commits ‘to fire,’ guiding thoughts, perceptions, and experiences to transformational moments where they “melt into something hard and new/long-lasting.” These subtle poems “let light through”—dazzling her readers in the process.
—Molly Peacock
ISBN 978-0-9976305-4-12017$18.95DEENA 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.
