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This is a war poem.
The bodies in it are blasted
all over the page:
arms, legs torn off
at the sockets,
guts spilling untidily
onto your clean
white mind.
This is a war poem.
The rhythms in it
are sung from a fractured
culture
like an anachronism.
This is a war poem.
Men have made it
and lived it
and breathed its barbarian
glory.
This is womb.
Women have carried it
inside them
to breed new heroes.
This war poem could
become a womb
and in it
we could all,
poet and reader
and war monger,
curl up together
and be born
again
and again
and again.
Copyright by Carolyn Zonailo: www.carolynzonailo.com,
2004 |
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 The
Wave Goddess |
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| Biography |
| Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Zonailo attended
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| Poetics |
| CZ is a visionary poet who writes with compassion and
careful detail about the world she lives in. |
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| Publications |
 The
Goddess in the Garden combines mystical insight and sensual language
to evoke a timeless meadow where humans and deities play out eternal passions.
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| Reviews |
| She draws on her study of mythology, astrology, and
Jungian psychology, for a seemingly inexhaustible source of imagery. |
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| Interviews |
| There is a quality in her work which makes all her
poems hers, but Zonailo’s style does differ. Compendium
is a collection of short, lyrical poetry; Zone 5 of prose. Each
book is an extension of her poetic exploration and a separate expression.
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| Articles |
| Over the years of sitting in Grant's Cafe or the Europa
and talking poetry with Lewis Gretsinger, the questions have been asked:
why write? what are you saying? what are your poetics? |
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| Poems |
Kwaday Dan Sinichi
He is a sign for our times, / a blessing. In the transience / of everyday,
we forget / the history of human life / and cannot see the future. / Now
this forgotten man / lives in each of us / and we are also in action / yet
waiting / to be gathered home, / the future ready to spring / from our bones. |
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| Forthcoming
Titles |
 The
Land of Motionless Childhood is a memoir of short stories by Carolyn
Zonailo about growing up in Vancouver, and her Doukhobor heritage. |
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| Français |
| Venez bientôt ... |
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| Photo
Gallery |
 Pictures
of CZ from her 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s. |
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| Literary
Papers |
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