Description:
Blood Moon explores twentieth and twenty-first century history through the stories of women who acted heroically under the most extreme circumstances...
Brief description: Carol Dine was a celebrated poet, essayist, and memoirist. Art critic and author John Berger wrote of Dine's Van Gogh in Poems(Bitter Oleander Press, 2009), "Her observation of [Van Gogh's] drawings equals his observation of what he was drawing." Dineread from the book at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Her memoir, Places in theBone (Rutgers University Press, 2005), which combines prose and poetry, deals with the redemptive power of art. Her poemsappeared in numerous literary magazines, including Aesthetica Creative Arts Annual (U.K.), Bitter Oleander, Boulevard, Inkwell, Lilith, and Salamander, as well as within the anthologies After Shocks: Poetry of Recovery and Poems Against War: Bending TowardJustice.
Review Quotes:
Dine's poems about women in extremis are pressed and compacted like diamonds. Her ability to empathize so completely with brave women who suffered terribly, in wartime, from the never-ending human appetite for cruelty, moved me profoundly. I have read Blood Moon over and over, and in my opinion, there is true greatness here. This volume of poetry surely deserves a place in the canon.
-Michael Sandle, British sculptor and artist
Carol Dine's poetry has always engaged. Immersed in her subjects, committed to their individual lives as humans, her language had to pursue, with deep compassion and trust, a full understanding of what it means to suffer and sometimes not survive life's unexpected consequences. We can be thankful for the path she opened up for us and the work she left behind so we, too, could observe the lives portrayed in Blood Moon.
-Paul B. Roth, Editor, The Bitter Oleander Press