For years Jan Seale’s carefully crafted poetry has captivated audiences with its wit, sharp diction, and seamlessness. This eighth volume of the Texas Poets Laureate series discovers the eternal in the transient—coupling the mythological with the present, the spiritual with the sensual, the joyful with the sorrowful. This riveting collection of work, both new and old, celebrates her broad achievements as a poet. Designated the 2012 Texas Poet Laureate, Seale reveres poetry as “the most elegant and most historic of our verbal arts.” Seale’s lifelong love of poetry (she began writing at the age of six) is apparent in this volume. Her work has been described as whittled and sharp, witty and serious. Her precise diction and visual imagery probe themes that range from spiritual faith to women, family, aging, and nature itself. This collection of work is a testament to Seale’s skill, craft, and dedication to the art of poetry.

Jan Seale: New and Selected Poems (TCU Texas Poets Laureate Series)

Literature & Fiction

Seale, Jan

History & Criticism

TCU Press

Madam Candelaria: The Nurse at the Alamo

Knowing Pr

William Goyens: The Texan Who Said No to Failure

Juan Seguin the Tejano Who Wouldn't Give Up

Deaf Smith: The Eyes and Ears of the Texas Army

Dilue Rose

Biographies & Memoirs

Jan Seale writes lyric poetry with a gift of intimacy, wrapping readers in rich, absorbing scenes and seeing. The sense of invitation in her poems-welcome to this moment, this perception, this life-is openhearted and abundant. Her language unfurls deliciously.

Nape

Poetry

Ink Brush Press

Jan Seale's poetry is both beautifully witty and serious, often ingeniously weaving contemporary life with the mythical, the eternal with the transient, joy with an awareness of loss. These poems are documentations honoring the earth and family in memory and moment. Each poem at the heart is of the heart, its attachments and joys, its griefs and serenities.

The Wonder Is, New and Selected Poems 1974-2012

Parkinson's disease and poetry square off in this volume written from the perspectives of a caregiver and her husband. With grit, humor, and compassion, Jan Seale spells out the vicissitudes of dealing with this so-far incurable neurological condition affecting seven million people worldwide. From onset through progression and treatment to final simple toleration, the poems testify to the mysteries and vagaries of the disease. Seeing faces in everything, lacking the ability to smile, stalling in doorways, obsessing on creativity-these and other peculiar symptoms of the brain syndrome are explored in accessible poetry from the desk of a Texas poet laureate.

The Parkinson Poems

Lamar University Press

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