Miriam Sagan
The Art of Love
New and Selected Poems
96 pages
6 x 8 inches
ISBN: 0-9631909-2-x
$11.00
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Known for her poetics of linked happenstance,
leaping detail and Buddhist practice, Miriam Sagan pulls the Vast Life
into an intensely personal cohesion. Tough and compassionate, her poems
reach deep into the mythos and heartlines of marriage, motherhood, Jewish
heritage, city, mountain, female desire and the beauty inhabited by
Matisse, García Lorca, Issan Dorsey and Pocahontas. Within this
selection are eight poems of the Margaret Sanger cycle, written with
a grant from the Barbara Deming Foundation.
“Sagan writes with grace and verve…what
is most remarkable is her ability to move among religious traditions,
to convince us that at least within the borders of her poems many traditions
can coexist peacefully… Brisk, vivid, clean, evocative and provocative,
(her) poems are gentle and fierce investigations of late century life.”
—Jeff Gundy, Mid-American Review
Miriam Sagan is author of than a dozen books
of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. She has held residency grants at
Yaddo and MacDowell and is the recipient of a grant from the Barbara
Deming Foundation. Her most recent books include a memoir Searching
for a Mustard Seed (Quality Words in Print, 2003) and poetry Archeology
of Desire (Red Hen, 2001); The Widow’s Coat (Ahsahta Press, 1999);
and The Art of Love, (La Alameda Press, 1994). She is also the author
of Dirty Laundry: 100 Days in a Zen Monastery, (New World Library, 1999);
Unbroken Line: Writing in the Lineage of Poetry (Sherman Asher, 1999);
co-editor with Joan Logghe of Another Desert: the Jewish Poetry of New
Mexico (Sherman Asher, 1998); and co-editor with Sharon Niederman of
New Mexico Poetry Renaissance (Red Crane, 1994). Sagan is the poetry
columnist for Writer's Digest and editor of the e-zine Santa Fe Poetry
Broadside. (sfpoetry.org) She teaches on line for UCLA-Extension, Santa
Fe Community College, and writers.com.Miriam Sagan lives with her daughter
Isabel and husband Richard Feldman in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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