In Sympathetic Systems, Carole Simmons Oles explores with great poignancy and precision the landscape of parenthood where it is most difficult to know one's own heart and mind, that is, where independence collides with love and concern. These are beautiful, necessary poems.
In Sympathetic Systems, Carole Simmons Oles explores with great poignancy and precision the landscape of parenthood where it is most difficu...
From Carole Simmons Oles comes a new modern poetry biography, this one based on the life of American sculptor Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908). After an exceptional apprenticeship in Rome, Hosmer opened a studio there where she was associated with Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, George Eliot, and the Brownings. Her sensual renditions of Beatrice Cenci and Zenobia earned her notoriety and acclaim. Though some of her work survives today, much of it has disappeared. Oles rediscovers Hosmer's life in Waking Stone. This is a dialogue, an exploration of what Oles calls their "parallel universes." In...
From Carole Simmons Oles comes a new modern poetry biography, this one based on the life of American sculptor Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908). After an exc...
Travel, blood, and transgression are the materials that art shapes in these poems. Carole Simmons Oles's work moves among physical, spiritual, and metaphorical frontiers where East meets West, where relationships are forged and broken, and where a woman can now process and reflect on the experiences that have shaped her life.
Travel, blood, and transgression are the materials that art shapes in these poems. Carole Simmons Oles's work moves among physical, spiritual, and met...