Winner, 2023 Blue Light Book Award Anna Kodama is a gifted poet whose gaze penetrates Life to its bones.
She is a coauthor of Dreams and Blessings: Six Visionary Poets, also published by Blue Light Press..
As Anna Carr, she authored several books about organic gardening.
She has raised children, chickens, and vegetables, and taught adult and family literacy. - Angie Minkin, author of Balm for the Living
About the Author Anna Kodama writes and paints in eastern Pennsylvania, a few miles from the Delaware River.
Anna is both a poet and a painter and her exquisite use of color and attention to nature\'s smallest details, as well as her sensitivity to the largest issues of life and death, bring her poetry alive in the most moving way.
Her skillful use of vivid details allows us to fully enter her world.
Whether Anna is telling a story or sharing a lyric moment, her poems move us in a way that we will not soon forget.
Anna Kodama\'s wise words come directly from her generous heart.
If they come from the tongue, they will not pass beyond the ears. - Kate Brandes, author of The Promise of Pierson\'s Orchard According to the Sufi Proverb, If words come from the heart, they will enter the heart.
This excellent and deeply personal collection weaves aspects of the natural world, memory, place, and time to evoke a sense of love and loss. - Jennifer Read Hawthorne, coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Woman\'s Soul and author of Life As a Prayer: Poems In vivid, intimate language Anna Kodama speaks directly to the heart in poems that convey the stratigraphy of a life layered with joy, wonder, and bereavement.
To read Anna\'s work is like being in a gentle rain of blessing.
With masterful crafting of language, she gives shape to the Mystery, often in the voice of the shaman or wise woman.
Winner, 2023 Blue Light Book Award Anna Kodama is a gifted poet whose gaze penetrates Life to its bones
