The Light on Sifnos
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Winner of the 2020 Blue Light Press Poetry PrizePoet and writer Barbara Quick is best known as author of the internationally bestselling novel Vivaldis Virgins, which has been translated into a dozen languages. Her first novel, Northern Edge, won the Discover: Great New Writers prize. Her fourth novel, What Disappears, is being launched by Regal House in 2022. Some of Barbaras poems have been recorded by Garrison Keillor and featured on The Writers Almanac. She has been the featured guest on Grace Cavalieris long-running program from the Library of Congress, The Poet and the Poem. Barbaras essays, poems and book reviews have been published in many periodicals, including the New York Times Book Review, Newsweek, the Annals of Internal Medicine, the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, the San Francisco Chronicle, Canary, the Monterey Poetry Review and other literary journals, both print and online. Her poems have been anthologized in These Trees, a large-format art book by photographer Ruthie Rosauer; Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California (co-edited by Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan for Scarlet Tanager Books); Fog and Light: San Francisco through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here (Diane Frank, Editor, Blue Light Press); Pandemic Puzzle Poems (Diane Frank and Prartho Sereno, Editors, Blue Light Press). Based on a small farm and vineyard in the California Wine Country with her husband Wayne Roden, a vigneron and long-time violist with the San Francisco Symphony, Barbara takes Brazilian dance classes whenever possible.Barbara Quick is a novelist of international reputation, and her skills are evident here, with characters we can believe; an atmosphere we can feel; and interior thoughts that deepen her observation. Every poem is a small story with personality and purpose- lines that flow like silk, holding words precise in every note. Quick gives us an island where we can go whenever we want to make beauty our own and rest in the company of flawless writing
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