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    Castles and Tents: Poems
    Castles and Tents: Poems
    Castles and Tents: Poems
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    Castles and Tents: Poems

    By Roxie Grant Powell

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    In 2001, poet Anselm Hollo wrote, With humor, tenderness, and surprising candor, Roxie Powell ventures into rarely visited territory to an ever-questioning mind. In his newest collection, Roxie keeps questioning, this time considering the connection between love and painand how one can rarely exist without the other.

    Letters Like Lettuce Gone Soggy with Pain

    One realizes that each life

    is a slippery vessel which glides

    through pain until it reaches

    some shore.

    At which time tents are erected,

    sometimes castles,

    and for some moments, all is fine.

    Old letters remind one

    that life will have its way,

    neither your castle nor your tent

    are sufficient to protect you,

    Only love has a chance.

    This book pulls together a wide variety of Powells poetry, the majority of which has never been published before. Most were written over the past twenty-five years, with the exception of a handful, which were written this year, such as Kansas Soliloquy and Turkestan. For Powell, the journey of life is illuminated by love, and emotional pain is native to the process.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchway Publishing
    Release dateAug 7, 2017
    ISBN9781480850491
    Castles and Tents: Poems
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    Roxie Grant Powell

    Roxie Grant Powell was born in western Kansas during the Dust Bowl. He grew up in the high Sangre de Christo Mountains of Southern Colorado. He earned his MA at Johns Hopkins University and eventually taught at Coppin State College in Baltimore, Maryland. Auerhahn Press of San Francisco first published his poetry in 1963.

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