Trial By Ordeal
Karen Mobley
(Author)
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Description
In a short period, Karen Mobley lost her family through death, was hit by a car, broke her leg, and experienced a number of calamities. This sequence of poems, Trial By Ordeal, explores her role as a daughter, sister, and lover as her faith is challenged. A visual artist, Mobley's poems are rich with her artist vision and observed experience. The poems chronicle loss as she seeks awe and astonishment in nature and survives the loss of family, disability, and personal injury.
Product Details
Price
$11.00
$10.23
Publisher
Resource Publications (CA)
Publish Date
May 12, 2020
Pages
66
Dimensions
6.0 X 9.0 X 0.14 inches | 0.22 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781725269002
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About the Author
Karen Mobley is free range but not a chicken. She earned the Dabbler badge in Girl Scouts and has been working at it ever since. She is a visual artist, poet, and arts consultant residing in Spokane, Washington. Her work is influenced by her avocations of gardening, hiking, and birdwatching.
Reviews
"Mobley writes out of a place of great love and great loss with grace and gratitude."
--Kim Barnes, Distinguished Professor of English, University of Idaho
"Bemused, unsparing yet tender, Karen Mobley's poems juxtapose human suffering alongside nature's 'raw and present' beauty in this moving anatomy of sorrow. Equally attuned to small birds and searing questions, Mobley shows us that no matter what befalls those we love, no matter our souls' myriad pains and hungers, we are gently propelled toward 'astonishment / with a side of salt and honey.'"
--Laurie Klein, author of Where the Sky Opens
"Through the thatched lines Mobley layers, interweaving traumatic, sometimes horrific, yet tragically beautiful, and tender, imagery from her own life of sacrifice, injustice, and shame, one atop the other, same as on canvas, suddenly, this view and sense emerge that make you want to feel each poem more deeply, step into the experience like a tightrope walker, not wanting to look down."
--Zan Agzigian, poet/writer and host/producer of Soundspace, Spokane Public Radio
"Karen Mobley creates poetry written with the full-on sensory palette of an artist. In dealing with loss and grief, there is comfort in the beautifully detailed intimacies of childhood memories; there are lessons taught by nature: the flora, the fauna, even the rocks; and there is the grace, compassion, and wisdom of the gospel in ultimately learning to turn the other cheek. Trial By Ordeal is a good and loving daughter's journey, one that informs us as we navigate ours."
--Chris Cook, poet laureate of Spokane, Washington
--Kim Barnes, Distinguished Professor of English, University of Idaho
"Bemused, unsparing yet tender, Karen Mobley's poems juxtapose human suffering alongside nature's 'raw and present' beauty in this moving anatomy of sorrow. Equally attuned to small birds and searing questions, Mobley shows us that no matter what befalls those we love, no matter our souls' myriad pains and hungers, we are gently propelled toward 'astonishment / with a side of salt and honey.'"
--Laurie Klein, author of Where the Sky Opens
"Through the thatched lines Mobley layers, interweaving traumatic, sometimes horrific, yet tragically beautiful, and tender, imagery from her own life of sacrifice, injustice, and shame, one atop the other, same as on canvas, suddenly, this view and sense emerge that make you want to feel each poem more deeply, step into the experience like a tightrope walker, not wanting to look down."
--Zan Agzigian, poet/writer and host/producer of Soundspace, Spokane Public Radio
"Karen Mobley creates poetry written with the full-on sensory palette of an artist. In dealing with loss and grief, there is comfort in the beautifully detailed intimacies of childhood memories; there are lessons taught by nature: the flora, the fauna, even the rocks; and there is the grace, compassion, and wisdom of the gospel in ultimately learning to turn the other cheek. Trial By Ordeal is a good and loving daughter's journey, one that informs us as we navigate ours."
--Chris Cook, poet laureate of Spokane, Washington
