A Ship to Hold the World and The Marionette's Ascent: A Double Volume of Poetry

Annabelle Mosely is an award-winning poet and writer, born and raised on the North Shore of Long Island. Author of nine books, Walt Whitman Birthplace Writer-in-Residence, and 2014 Long Island Poet of the Year, Mosely continues to reside in Whitman's Paumanok. Mosely is the founder and editor of String Poet, the journal of poetry and music, as well as a Lecturer at St. Joseph's College and St. Joseph's Seminary, where she teaches classes in Religious Studies and Literature. Reviews ofA Ship to Hold the World and The Marionette's Ascent: A Double Volume of Poetry "Like a sumptuous Northern diptych—Van Eyck’s Crucifixion and Last Judgment , say—Annabelle Moseley’s twinned volumes treat Biblical subjects through stunning compositions and vivid colors. In A Ship to Hold the World, Old Testament voices speak from the embers of ancient narratives with a contemporary spark. In The Marionette’s Ascent, it is not Dante who makes this spiritual journey but our semblable, a puppet, dancing to another’s tune: we are all, at times, willing or unwilling marionettes, the book suggests, and who of us cannot feel the truth of this. Moseley pulls the strings in these signal volumes, and the resulting show is mesmerizing."—David Yezzi "When we pray, we put our two hands together, a symbolic gesture made possible because our bodies rhyme. In this amazing collection, Annabelle Moseley has hinged together two books, which, on first glance, would seem to be very different than our matching hands: venerable voices from the Old Testament in the first book, followed by the far more contemporary voice of 'Marion,' a highly opinionated stringed puppet who has 'dropped the ette' from her name. Moseley is a master of music in both volumes. Her characters speak in a perfect pentameter line, unnoticed because flawless. This poet knows line breaks: when to enjamb and when not. So never do we get the 'Hallmark Card' effect. Instead, these are living voices we can really believe. 'It’s dancing through restraint that is the test,' says Marion, and Annabelle Moseley has done just that in these remarkable poems."—Bruce Guernsey "Reading Annabelle Moseley’s double volume is like witnessing a dazzling, sophisticated 'Cirque du Soleil' act. All elements combine; entertaining and strange, full of character and choreography, feeling and forward motion. There is never a dull moment, nor any passage which may be lightly-treated except to the reader’s disadvantage. Good judgment is here, too, in great quantities, as though the poems of A Ship to Hold the World, and The Marionette’s Ascent launched themselves from the flying trapeze of utterly-candid innocence, to fill the reader with trepidation, sailing over the safety net to safely land on a high platform of Wisdom—far above the reader, but visible, still."—Jennifer Reeser
ASIN: 0692290001
VSKU: RDV.0692290001.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Moseley, Annabelle
Binding: Paperback
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