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ISBN 1-894838-21-1 - 80 pp - 6 x 9 - pb
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THE ENCHANTED HOUSE
Poetry by Beth E. Janzen
In her first full collection of poems, The Enchanted House, Beth E. Janzen explores
the seductions and abductions of a self under the spell of fierce enchantments that are physical and
metaphysical, blessing and curse. In her House, Janzen constructs stories of interiority in the house of
the psyche, the body, the book.
Rigorous in curiosity and intellect, Janzen's poems
are a delicate conversation between the truth of things as they
are and things as they are imagined. They witness the violence and
innocence of thoughts and actions stripped of generative power or
constrained by pernicious fates, irresistible choices, and the intractable
wills of domestic gods. Precise in form and language, Janzen traces
the jubilant, wrenching, rough couplings and uncouplings at the
core of human relationship -- and of metaphor.
Praise for Beth Janzen's poetry:
The poetry in Janzen's Night Vanishes has
the elegance and inwardness of Japanese Haiku, and yet it is full
of an intense and personal music. How can anything so delicate be
so sharp?
— Joseph Sherman, Beautiful
Veins
The stunning juxtapositions within these poems startle,
intrigue, and haunt the reader.
— Dianne Morrow, Long
Reach Home
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