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What Glorious Possibilities
What Glorious Possibilities
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Like Jon Anderson and Larry Levis before him, Zola's domestic landscapes and haunted meditations are both comic and surreal. And yet his overall project, his autobiographical, no-bullshit work, is a luminously beautiful acknowledgment of the human struggle toward the inevitable end of things. It's also, however, a testament that the lived life is more than just worthwhile
From the foreword by David Dodd Lee
When a woman carries a bag of groceries like a grudge into a room wallpapered with the cries of birds, imagination writes the world. Again and again in What Glorious Possibilities, the reader will be both startled and in awe of Jim Zola's provocative and artful imagery. Amid the celebration of these poems, there is a profound resignation: I hear you/sing a song that says/this is the weather I was born into. No matter the situation what can we do but sing and Jim Zola does this extravagantly with a compelling, undeniable beauty that shakes us gloriously alive.
Walter Bargen, first Poet Laureate of Missouri, author of Trouble Behind Glass Doors
The domestic interior will never quite be the same. Zola's poems challenge our notions of what we take for granted, lifting up the details of what might be forgotten and making meaning-all the while gripping our shirt-collars and urgently goading us to really see.
Julianna Baggott, award-winning author of 19 books including the Pure Trilogy
Author: Jim Zola
Publisher: Aldrich Press
Published: 02/08/2014
Pages: 86
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.18d
ISBN: 9780615958354
From the foreword by David Dodd Lee
When a woman carries a bag of groceries like a grudge into a room wallpapered with the cries of birds, imagination writes the world. Again and again in What Glorious Possibilities, the reader will be both startled and in awe of Jim Zola's provocative and artful imagery. Amid the celebration of these poems, there is a profound resignation: I hear you/sing a song that says/this is the weather I was born into. No matter the situation what can we do but sing and Jim Zola does this extravagantly with a compelling, undeniable beauty that shakes us gloriously alive.
Walter Bargen, first Poet Laureate of Missouri, author of Trouble Behind Glass Doors
The domestic interior will never quite be the same. Zola's poems challenge our notions of what we take for granted, lifting up the details of what might be forgotten and making meaning-all the while gripping our shirt-collars and urgently goading us to really see.
Julianna Baggott, award-winning author of 19 books including the Pure Trilogy
Author: Jim Zola
Publisher: Aldrich Press
Published: 02/08/2014
Pages: 86
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.18d
ISBN: 9780615958354
About the Author
Jim Zola's poems have appeared in journals and anthologies for many years now. He has served as poetry editor for The Melic Review. His chapbook, The One Hundred Bones of Weather was published by Blue Pitcher Press. He works as a children's librarian at a public library in North Carolina and for years also worked as a toy designer for a large toy company. He is married with three children and two dogs.
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