Filled with lucid and evocative revelations about living and loving, A Dawn Run Hot with Morning is proof positive that life begins at the age of 30. This book of poetry takes the reader on a journey, a quest for answers about love and about self. Faced with wrenching loss, the poetry's narrator emerges, a phoenix from the flames, conscious of her strength and wiser as a result of the experience. At 30, January celebrates life, family, friends and resilience in this thought-provoking work.
Filled with lucid and evocative revelations about living and loving, A Dawn Run Hot with Morning is proof positive that life begins at the age of 30. ...
January Nicole Wilson has again written a thoughtful and provocative collection of poetry with The Lily & The Aster, her third book. In this book, Wilson uses a Japanese form of poetry, the haiku, to communicate her message. Each haiku is a meditation on the love, music and politics that fill her daily life. To borrow the title from her second chapter, time and again her poetry is "a confession of joy." She uses haiku to introduce three travel essays, included in The Lily & The Aster. Each essay tells a gripping story of adventure in three different regions of the world, spanning Europe &...
January Nicole Wilson has again written a thoughtful and provocative collection of poetry with The Lily & The Aster, her third book. In this book, Wil...
In A Poet Speaks of Empire, January Nicole Wilson's fourth book of poetry, the author looks at today's Africa on the precipice of great change and tumult. Wilson captures something of the zeitgeist of this new era in Africa. In this book, distinct African countries inspire poems concerning change, growth, wonder and even love. She reveals the continent's great history, including the ancient empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhay, and imagines a future begging for rebirth. As she astutely points out, the rise and fall of empire are only a matter of history. Her studies of political science and...
In A Poet Speaks of Empire, January Nicole Wilson's fourth book of poetry, the author looks at today's Africa on the precipice of great change and tum...
The Words That Breathe, Wilson's sixth book of poetry, is richly varied in its presentation of a new year of life for this author. In this book, she highlights her travels and new love that she has stumbled upon along the way. The book is dedicated to her twin nieces who were a joyful inspiration for this book. In the chapter "The Circumference of Family," Wilson speaks of new hope that only newborns can inspire-as "children roam on the pulse of tomorrow..." Wilson proves sensitive and observant of people and her surroundings in poems in the chapter called, "Profiles." Here, she carefully...
The Words That Breathe, Wilson's sixth book of poetry, is richly varied in its presentation of a new year of life for this author. In this book, she h...
