Meet the writer
Joan Canby
Joan Canby’s poetry has been published in Poetry South, Forage, Place Journal, California Quarterly, The Hawaiian Advertiser, Illyas Honey, Texas Observer, Forces, Beginnings, New Voices, Cape Rock, Voices Project, Brevitas, Broken Plate, Main Street Rag, Presence, Thema, Heron Clan and Frogpond…
Meet the writer
Joan Canby
Joan Canby’s poetry has been published in Poetry South, Forage, Place Journal, California Quarterly, The Hawaiian Advertiser, Illyas Honey, Texas Observer, Forces, Beginnings, New Voices, Cape Rock, Voices Project, Brevitas, Broken Plate, Main Street Rag, Presence, Thema, Heron Clan and Frogpond…
By Joan Canby
Cascades
Poems
Cascades is a collection of poems inspired by a freak boating accident that resulted in the deaths of two children and their grandfather with the subsequent repercussions on a marriage.
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By Joan Canby
Metaxe
Transcendent Journey
Metaxe is Plato’s term for transendence and that the state of being in between, en route. This collection of poetry describes the Holy Land pilgrimage of one soul. A ten day trip to Jaffa, Caesrea, Megiddo, Mt. Tabor, Temple of Pan, Christening in the River Jordan, floating on the Dead Sea, visiting Capernaum, Jericho, Golan Heights, Beth-She’an, Qumran, Masada, to Jerusalem, mount of Olives Garden of Gethsemane, Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Western Wall and Slomon’s Temple. As a pilgrimage to a renewed faith tells of the one’s soul’s journey offering a promise of transcendence from place to understanding.
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With the fine tune of a skilled craftsman, Joan Canby takes us on a spiritual journey through the Holy Lands of Israel, bringing to light the poetic beauty of an ancient civilization still relevant to our lives today. Her chapbook is a treasured gem in my library of poetry.