In 2012, I published a chapbook, Balance (White Violet Press).
A daily practitioner of Iyengar yoga, I wrote the book to honor Mr. Iyengar on the occasion of his 90th birthday.
The book contains 15 poems, one for each pose in the sequence, with drawings done by Nina Canal.
I was thinking that poetry fans should be able to visualize the poses, since the poems are so imagistic that they generally closely follow the shape of the asana (Sanskrit for pose).
For yoga afficionados, the book could well serve as a sort of instruction book, though of course one that was more impressionistic than technical.
It is available at Amazon.
Congratulations on your book, Robbi. I like the cover and am sure the poems are wonderful.
ReplyDeleteThank you, belatedly Linda.
DeleteThanks Linda. This book is a few years old. I have two more recent books, A Likely Story (Moon Tide Press, 2014) and The Liberal Media Made Me Do It! (Nine Toes, 2014), an anthology of poems I edited that were inspired by NPR and PBS stories.
ReplyDeletePlease check them out on the other pages of this blog, which include links for more information and orders.
Glad you have a new page! Much luck with it.
ReplyDeleteThanks Marly. Better luck than the previous version, which disappeared like mist after I labored over it for a week.
DeleteDid you put a link in here to the page? If not, it's www.robbi-nester-poet-and-writer.com.
ReplyDeleteI take that back. It's www.robbinester-poet-and-writer.com!
DeleteThis isn't the page I am using now. The new one is up on Wix, and is much more elaborate and less florid, I think, though I can't resist busy backgrounds.
ReplyDeleteThe new one has pulsing jellyfish.
Hah.
DeleteSo what page do you want as a link? I put one up for this page (in my roll on my blog site.)