The River From My Mouth is a collection of lyrical poems that run like a mountain river through the territories of love and loss, identity and voice. Cut down to the bare essentials these poems speak to the inner life’s raw landscape. In swirling eddies of recurring images they sing in the sensual tense of yearning.
From the Book of Remembrance is a collection of love poems, but not typical love poems. These are gritty and confrontational, made of blood and spit. These explore relationship with the beloved, the one that makes our heart sing, whether in the world or the divine realm.
Asemic writing is a wordless form of writing, an art form offering an impression or abstraction of conventional physical writing. In Fluency, we see a union of Karla Van Vliet's lifelong practices of art and poetry, each dissolving into the other and resurfacing as asemic writing in full flower. Here are thirty-seven images, thirty-seven pieces of literary expression that extend far beyond literary convention, accompanied by Van Vliet's personal insights and remarks. In her words: "There are times when I do not have words. Yet I have the need and desire to write. It is to asemic writing that I turn in these moments. To the gesture of writing. . . . In the branching tree limbs, in the waves, in my hand's scratching across paper, we each read the feeling that rises in us.
She Speaks Tongues is a collection of the rising voices of five women, from silence (her image, ) to gesture, to word. Each section starts with a woman's portrait and follows with her unique rising voice in asemic writing to poems (words). Asemic writing lies between the mystery what is yet to be spoken, and semantics.
The River From My Mouth is a collection of lyrical poems that run like a mountain river through the territories of love and loss, identity and voice. Cut down to the bare essentials these poems speak to the inner life’s raw landscape. In swirling eddies of recurring images they sing in the sensual tense of yearning.
From the Book of Remembrance is a collection of love poems, but not typical love poems. These are gritty and confrontational, made of blood and spit. These explore relationship with the beloved, the one that makes our heart sing, whether in the world or the divine realm.
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