The Heart Is Improvisational
An Anthology in Poetic Form
Poets attribute an array of roles and capacities to the involuntary muscle and catalyst of our storied lives. The heart becomes a repository of erotic and familial love and a sanctuary for memory. In this collection, poets explore the flux of the heart's responses and instigations: the heart's tender overtures, its joyous pulse, its mating call for the other, its changeable temperament, its final tick in freeze-frame. Among the poets featured: Kenneth Sherman, Lorna Crozier, Marilyn Bowering, Roo Borson, Patrick Lane, Charles Bukowski, Rita Dove, Eugénio de Andrade, John Barton, Robyn Sarah, and Mary di Michele.
Carol Lipszyc’s book of poetry, Singing Me Home, (2010) and book of short stories on children and adolescents in the Holocaust, The Saviour Shoes and Other Stories, (2014) were published by Inanna Publications. Earning her Doctorate in Education at OISE, Carol has published scholarship in arts-based education journals in Australia, New Zealand, England, and Canada. Her Literacy/ESL Reader with chants, People Express, was published by Oxford University Press. Carol is currently an Associate Professor in the English Department at SUNY, Plattsburgh.
