Wahee Neck - by Janet Joyner (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Every child is a hapless carrier of the epic reverberating within family generations. The boundaries of childhood become mutable, conflating the overheard with the lived, the past with the present. WAHEE NECK, Janet Joyner's newest collection, moves like consciousness itself; outward from the individual, to the tribe, the species, and their habitats. Hers is a distinctly southern voice. And in this, her third volume, the poet guides the reader from the leaky borders of childhood toward an invasion of human and global disruptions. In her final section, Joyner contemplates the horrible possibility of annihilation of the planet. Throughout WAHEE NECK, Janet Joyner's lyrical language challenges set patterns of sound displayed in poems of both free and more formal verse; in selections short and pithy, as well as those more lengthy and narrative. A must read for the discerning.</p><p>Of WAHEE NECK, North Carolina Poet Laureate Shelby Stephenson writes: </p><p>Janet Joyner's WAHEE NECK extends lyrically into the body of the actual place and bodies forth the poet's world. Flue-cured tobacco barns, mules and a hinny, her childhood, family, friends, loves, and this world becomes our own. In a language at once precise and humorous (especially see "The Cousin" for the monkey that parades Berenice's neck and shoulders), WAHEE NECK currents wryly in erotic tones, pleading for equality, human dignity, as the earth exemplifies. A cat's behind in front of the seer becomes a fur piece in another time and place; a bow tie on a senator somehow moves his Adam's apple like the "wizened scrotum" keeping him from appreciating love, as mortality's song projects humanity's bodies formed and those not yet created. WAHEE NECK: "Universal, like grief."</p><p> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Janet Joyner's WAHEE NECK extends lyrically into the body of the actual place and bodies forth the poet's world. Flue-cured tobacco barns, mules and a hinny, her childhood, family, friends, loves, and this world becomes our own. In a language at once precise and humorous (especially see "The Cousin" for the monkey that parades Berenice's neck and shoulders), WAHEE NECK currents wryly in erotic tones, pleading for equality, human dignity, as the earth exemplifies. A cat's behind in front of the seer becomes a fur piece in another time and place; a bow tie on a senator somehow moves his Adam's apple like the "wizened scrotum" keeping him from appreciating love, as mortality's song projects humanity's bodies formed and those not yet created. WAHEE NECK: "Universal, like grief."</p><p>Shelby Stephenson, Poet Laureate of North Carolina, 2015-2018, author of Paul's Hill: Homage to Whitman and Our World.</p><p>WAHEE NECK secures Janet Joyner as a particular kind of poet. Behind unadorned speech is a reflective intelligence and technique that is attuned to the poet's sensibility. She opens with conversation about a particular place, Wahee Neck. This specific world recalls ordinary people and events from her experiences growing up in Marion, SC. The poems sing of deep connections, the impulse to ritual and pattern that sustain the beauty of community. The poet's eye is focused on the everyday and the familiar. In Joyner's poems that reflect on the natural and human world, we are transferred by attentiveness that jolts us into wonder. Whether reflecting on the Eastern fungus that destroyed the American Chestnut Tree, complex relationships, same-sex marriage or society's bias toward gay youth, Joyner's treatment is personal and artistic. Praise for Janet Joyner's newest book of wise honest poems. This is a brave selection from a supremely gracious voice.</p><p>Sandra Ann Winters, Calving Under the Moon, The Place Where I Left You.</p><p> </p><br>
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