Lingering Echoes
Collected Poems
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The first poem "At the Edge," is a great opener for Slahor's collected poems, Lingering Echoes, written with impressive masterly of the English language. Some notable words in the Snowman" describe the joys of erotic love: : I'll be your sun / playfully kissing / and melting your lovelorn body / resurrected from icy quiescence / by my charm ..." Or her agitation in the "Hurricane": " ...as a thick layer / of repulsive yellow foam / whisked and churned / in the devil's caldron / of the raging sea / began inundating / the coast ..." Her memorable and original imagery creates great effects and evokes multiple layers of meaning: '... of necessity / i learned to hear / the quiet wings of butterflies / alighting gently / on my feet ..." Or: " Beethoven's piano concerto # 4 : ... resounded from cracked / yellowing keyboard / a majestic music / pushed apart / the thick drizzling fog / smothering the peaks..." A beautiful metaphor in the "Old Lady's Treasure" shows author's artistic imagination: " ... her silver hair / bursting milkweed pods / of pure silk / spindle-spun / gossamer webs / woven / on purring loom / of indian summer ..."
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Expressing the universal quest for acceptance and love, the poems in this volume reflect the personal life journey of author Stania Slahor. The poetry is filled with vivid and eclectic images Slahor has gathered from her long life and from around the globe—sailing, Gestapo atrocities, immigrants’ struggles, troubled dreams of a defiant daughter and wife, and the joys highlighted by beauty and erotic love.
In this, her second volume of poetry, Slahor provides memorable and original imagery as evidenced in the selection, “An Old Lady’s Treasure.” She writes: “/ her silver hair / bursting milkweed pods / of pure silk / spindle-spun / gossamer webs / woven on the purring loom / of indian summer / the unrestrained / wavy mane / never violated by perms / or artificial dyes / a rich dowry / handed down / from her mom.”
Like ocean tides, the poems in Lingering Echoes ravish the soul with crushing waves of tragedy and death, and then soothe it with gentle caresses that wash away sorrow and leave it trembling with new life and hope.
About the Author
Stania J. Slahor is the author of Mercurial Journeys, On the Wings of Poetry; and Lingering Echoes, Collected Poems. Slahor translated a nonfiction book about Antonin Dvorak, In Dvorak's Footsteps, Musical Journeys in the New World, published by Thomas Jefferson University Press, Kirksville, Missouri -USA. She was born in Czechoslovakia where she received a master’s degree in literature and fine arts. Slahor and her husband live in London, Canada, and also spend time in Florida and Yucatan, Mexico.