Sending Messages Over Inconceivable Distances

By Karen Braucher

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890767026
• ISBN13: 9781890767020
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: The Bacchae Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Kudos for originality

Some people will buy and some people will review Sending Messages Over Inconceivable Distances for only one reason: the book contains eloquently written poems about adoption. To read only those achingly beautiful poems about parental relationships and bridging cultures would be a good thing but it would mean shortchanging a writer whose skills exceed the topical content they approach. Karen Braucher is a risk-taking, original poet whose poems about violation, like "Time," about female sexuality, like "This Poem Has Breasts," and about longing and eroticism, like "Heaven¹s Net" merit sustained and close attention and kudos for the boundaries they extend and the paths they explore.

Wonderful, heartfelt poems

I really enjoyed this book with its poems exploring the depths--both painful and joyful--of communication and miscommunication. I, too, love the cover photo, but I would like to direct readers to my favorite poems in the collection: Travel Instructions for China, Economics, This Poem Has Breasts, To Become One, Teaching Sunday School, Rigamarole, Trains, Marriage, and Beyond Mandarin. All of the poems display what a poetry reader desires in poems: language play, passion, dedication to language, knowledge and intelligence, and the sensation of being pulled in, willingly, to see the familiar in a new way or to see something new in an way that creates understanding.Braucher's experience of adopting a Chinese daughter (something unfamiliar to me) are well-documented in these poems, as well as the daily experiences with communication we all share. The poems exploring male-female relationships are especially strong, particularly in saying something new and interesting in familiar terrain.I highly recommend this book!

stunning book

This is readable, riveting book with really beautiful poems. Many are deeply moving and all are well-written. The book is coherently organized and well-paced. Readers will find pieces of the poems haunting them!

Dazzling and accessible, these poems touch your soul

When Karen Braucher gave a reading of these poems in San Francisco, she enraptured us with the beauty of her words and the ease with which these poems cut straight to the core of complex feelings and experiences many of us shared. This is poetry at its modern best: elegant and clear, small parcels full of rich gifts.

Poetry That Takes You on a Journey You'll Never Forget

Braucher's first full-length book of poetry from The Bacchae Press explores her adoption journey to China, motherhood, and contemporary life. It contains most of the poems from her earlier award-winning chapbook, Heaven's Net, which has now sold out, plus many new poems.These poems are filled with real passion and can make you cry or laugh outloud. In addition, the book is finely crafted so that there is a real chronological and spiritual progression.Most of the poems have been published in fine literary journals, newspapers, or anthologies. They are wonderful to read aloud or quietly to yourself. Filled with energy and a love for the sound of words, they can transport you to a different place, outside yourself.The poet is donating all her royalties to the Foundation for Chinese Orphanages. After reading the Chinese adoption poems, you will feel very good that you are supporting this effort by purchasing this book.This book makes a great inexpensive gift for your literary friends, especially mothers, adoptive parents and grandparents, students of women's studies, and any lover of poetry. At $10.00, it is very reasonably priced compared to other poetry books.In addition, the rare antique photo on the cover of a child listening to her father's radio in the 1920s is absolutely captivating and was worth the price alone!