This Week: Jeanne Braham & Barry Moser, LIGHT WITHIN THE LIGHT
April 25th, 2007
We spend the hour with author Jeanne Braham and illustrator Barry Moser, talking about THE LIGHT WITHIN THE LIGHT: Portraits of Donald Hall, Richard Wilbur, Maxine Kumin, and Stanley Kunitz. Tune in on April 27 on 91.1 WMUA for the first broadcast of this episode.
Jeanne Braham often writes about contemporary American Poets. THE LIGHT WITHIN THE LIGHT: Portraits of Donald Hall, Richard Wilbur, Maxine Kumin, and Stanley Kunitz is her most recent of four books on American arts and letters. In it, she explores the lives, places and achievement of these four poets, who are often placed within the lineage of Robert Frost, giving us an almost palpable sense of place and of the spirit and people that make up the region. Jeanne Braham bases her book on intimate personal interviews with the four poets as well as a look at their work. She weaves some of their poems into each essay and includes endnotes and other sources of entry into each poet’s work and life. Besides her research and writing, she is founding editor of Heatherstone Press, publisher of poetry chapbooks, and poetry editor of the recently launched and acclaimed magazine ‘New England Watershed’ – a magazine that will be of much interest to those who know and love the Connecticut River.
Barry Moser, an illustrator of many children’s classics, a wood engraver, painter, publisher, author and lecturer, designed LIGHT WITHIN THE LIGHT and contributed portraits of each poet and several illustrations to its pages. His sensitive work enhances the deep sense of place and beauty circumscribed by the four New England poets. No mistake that he makes his home and work in Western Massachusetts. –Michael Pollitt
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