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Title: Geography Lens by Jane Reichhold ISBN: 0-944676-44-8 Publisher: Aha Books Pub. Date: 20 July, 1999 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $10.00

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Summary: A Pearl of Great Price
Comment: The process of creativity is a mysterious one as is the various reasons for writing; what inspires us to explore the depths and heights of our creative being, then relate what we have found, has always been a complex activity. What we bring back from those depths--the pure sound of poetry, that pearl of great price, can either destroy us or save us. Memory is a palpable thing when exploring the boundaries of the soul; we try to remember, we try to name the terrors and fears which may haunt us, stalk us. To name those fears, to remember those terrors are all a part of the creative process and, ultimately, it is the most harrowing and the most heroic act anyone can do--i.e., to enter the belly of the whale and survive, stronger and more alive than ever before. We have confronted the monster, the daemon which has devoured us, and we have made it our own. We have shook it until it has melted in our very own hands. Jane Reichhold, in her new book of tanka _Geography Lens_, has explored those depths and looked at her devouring monster straight in the eye. She has conquered the entrapment of negative and unregenerative emotions which might have imprisoned her. Instead, those memories and her shattering pain have, in fact, given her the courage to create beyond the pain, beyond the suffering. In _Geography Lens_, the lens itself which Reichhold uses is not only for visualizing a painful past, but, essentially, for envisioning a painless future. As the Hindus have said, memory is therapeutic; all understanding which results from delving into memory leads to enlightenment. The individual who can recollect, as Eliade has stated in _Myth and Reality_, "possesses an even more precious magico-religious power than he who knows the origin of things." There are some disturbing yet hauntingly powerful tanka in this collection: "Why did not the windows / which watched in the lamp light / explode--shatter / weapons to be my defense / without mother or guardian?" Her complex imagery and lyrical eloquence echo in the mind and heart: "memory / the river I enter each day / shaped from a face / traveling spring to delta / shallow to deep and gone." There are moments of pure, sweet poetry which leave the reader breathless--shaken and light: "water lilies / in the inches of pond water / souls of swans / carried aloft by darkness / streams running from the earth." Finally, reading _Geography Lens_ by Jane Reichhold has deepened my appreciation of the richness, the rare and complex quality of her creative spirit; the depth and clarity of her tanka is truly a pearl of great price.