I came here on the back of an extinct crane Its slender neck Wings fierce and gilded with the feathers of the north wind I heard the needs of the people and the tormented world I fled the other pla…
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Information on my new book
NeoPoiesis Press link to various distributors in the world
or for an autographed copy, buy it directly from the author donnajosnyder@gmail.com
Review of I Am South by Lawrence Barrett
Lawrence Barrett reviewed I Am South when it was released as a chapbook in 2010. Now Virgogray Press has reissued it as a perfect bound paperback book.
http://slimgizzardz.blogspot.com/2012/09/lawrence-barrett-review-of-i-am-south.html
Donna Snyder Reading at Western New Mexico U – March 18, 2015
Virgogray Press poet, Donna Snyder, will be reading at the J. Cloyd Miller Library at Western New Mexico University on Wednesday March 18, 2015 as part of the continuing series, “Reflections of an Artist,” presented by the Western Institute for Lifelong Learning.
Donna Snyder to read at Western New Mexico University
I Am South and Poemas ante el Catafalco: Grief and Renewal at BookWoman reading
Photograph taken by Henry Arrambide on January 8, 2015 at BookWoman in Austin, Texas
I Am South by Donna Snyder Reissued
Thank you, Virgogray Press, for reissuing my book, I Am South.
In Donna Snyder’s debut collection of poetry, I Am South, readers are exposed to the vivid psyche of a poet unafraid to release the passions, fears and reasoning of inner toil and resolve. Snyder’s poetry is like a painting that tells mystified stories and is very revealing in all their discretion. The language of the poet is elaborate and intense evoking images such as darkness: “it is a black night and I dive over and over / from the prow of a black boat/ into the blackest water” (“To Continue is Imperative,” 27), mythology: “He turns his feathered back on the siren’s song / a choice will lead him back to the horned man’s woodland” (“Dreaming in Cards,” 23), and sex: “the sound of movies and silk hosing swishing / the young thighs crossed and uncrossed in the darkness / If only I had never said yes to fervent…
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Second Edition of I Am South released
First published as a chapbook in 2010, Virgogray Press has issued a second edition of I Am South as a perfect bound paperback. Available in bookstores everywhere.
Book release notice by Virgogray Press
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