Award winning poet, Nita Penfold's second full length book of poetry. Nita Penfold received her Master of Arts in Writing from Lesley University and her doctorate in ministry at Wisdom University.... More > Her first full-length book, They Stand Up in Broken Shells, earned her the 2006 Writer’s Digest International Self-Published Poetry Book Award.
More information at: www.nitapenfold.com.About Landing in Oz:
In this book of Nita Penfold's soulful and intrepid poetry, we find a contiguous series of luscious moments, inching us toward some greater light; here familiar or familial, there abstract. But more than that, in the germ of her impartial reverence for nature, we find answers that acknowledge then challenge grief - that venture beyond reason— toward genuine, legitimate joy.
Leda Joandaughter, author of the novel, Tao of Love< Less
First full length book by Nita Penfold whose work has appeared in over 30 anthologies and numerous small press magazines. She identifies the poetry in a contemporary woman's life through... More > relationships and passages, digging deep for the taste of the grit and honey in everyday life.< Less
First full length book by Nita Penfold whose work has appeared in over 30 anthologies and numerous small press magazines. She identifies the poetry in a contemporary woman's life through... More > relationships and passages, digging deep for the taste of the grit and honey in everyday life.< Less
About Nita Penfold
One of the army of Whitman’s democratic poets, a decorated veteran—this is Nita Penfold and her poetry. Chances are, if you’ve been following poetry over the last two decades, you’ve already encountered her fierce, funny, bone deep honest verse. This book-length collection, boiled down to the essentials from over 300 published works, is a chronicle of the late 20th century life of America’s do-right, feisty, laboring sisters/mothers/daughters. In what seems like innumerable anthologies from CRIES OF THE SPIRIT, to CATHOLIC GIRLS, to IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER I WOULD PICK MORE DAISIES, Nita’s unflinching, mischievous verse has soldiered up next to works by Lucille Clifton, Denise Levertov, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, Sharon Olds and other modern luminaries. Nita Penfold is a diamond of a poet and this is a gem of a collection. —David Earl Williams, writer, director, editor author of Superman Dreams THIS BOOK WON THE 2006 WRITER'S DIGEST INTERNATIONAL SELF-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD!!!!
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