GATHERING A LIFE

Lohmann, Jeanne

Arts & Photography

Daniel & Daniel Publishers

The poems in this new collection, most of which were first published in distinguished literary quarterlies, celebrate travel and creativity, explore loss, and acknowledge the relationship between nature and death.

Flying Horses

While death waits patiently, the poet waits patiently also, getting the most out of the last light. This book celebrates life while acknowledging death, grief, and widowhood. The theme is light, whether thrown across a landscape or used as a metaphor for transcendence.

The Light of Invisible Bodies

Literature & Fiction

United States

This brave collection of poems focuses on what is to come and what remains, and how the two interact. Many of the poems are about naturetrees, of course, but also wildflowers and gardens with weeds, birds in flight, horses and dogs, the sea, the mountains. The hours of the day, from morning to night; the seasons of the year, from spring to winter and back to spring. And running throughout is an acknowledgment of time passing, the end approaching. The poet bravely accepts what is coming, even celebrates the coming of what will change us all from body back into nature. Meanwhile, until we greet that day, we greet each day. Jeanne Lohmann works with nature and listens to nature's lessons, a lifelong practice. The lessons seem to say that each moment is to be appreciated as unique, even if the whole process is recurring and dependable. Permanent and transitory, Nature stands for our well-being. So do trees.

Shaking the Tree: New and Selected Poems

With tender fidelity, the poems in Jeanne Lohmann's new collection chronicle the years of her marriage. The book is a page-turning love story alive with humor, sensuality, and delight, as well as the inevitable tensions in the relationship. There is grief here, too, in the death of the beloved, and the survivor's work of going on. What endures is the astounding strength of this marriage, evoked in the vivid language of love that, even as it speaks, knows the limits of words

As If Words: Poems

Poetry

n Home Ground Jeanne Lohmann celebrates her life with gratitude and zest, a wry sense of humor. The poems speak of the vagaries and wisdom of aging, the complex beauty of nature, memories of parents, friends and growing up. Through love and loss and change the work of these generous poems is an adventurous search for"home ground.” JeanneLohmann lives and writes inOlympia Washington. This is her tenth published poetry collection.

Home Ground: Poems

These pieces display a remarkable collection of memories and fantasies, beautifully expressed. Poet Jeanne Lohmann uses short prose sketches to recall her girlhood, from jump rope klutz to drama queen, with nostalgia for streetcars and old movies. She shares what she learned about war from being a volunteer in post-WWII Europe. She remembers sensual experiences throughout her life from blueberry pie to encounters with menâ€”some welcome, others intrusive. Her writing about aging, widowhood, and loss is honest and wise. She takes her reader for walks in the forest and on the beach. Many of these pieces are fantasies, dreams, magical storiesâ€”some humorous and others frightening. Some of these sketches read like mood pieces, and others like polished short stories

In Parallel Light: A Prose Collection

Literary

Jeanne Lohmann's new poetry collection celebrates the season of harvest, and the approach of yearâ€™s end; but the poems are also about the literary harvest of a poet who has garnered respect and admiration for her remarkable use of words. These poems are wise and reflective, and many of them are narrative and story-like, entertaining, full of sharp, clear memories of people, places, and important moments of joy from a rich, long life. Several of these poems say goodbye to some of lifeâ€™s pleasures and skills, and to some fading memories, but thereâ€™s a sense of letting go with grace and gratitude, and of treasuring what remains. Here's an appreciation of calm, stillness, silence, emptiness. And in the end the harvest of autumn returns over and over to the life-long love of words. Words have given Jeanne Lohmann much to work with, and she has made the most of them.

Autumn in the Fields of Language: Poems

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