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Miriam Sagan has written a book that tells in poetic beauty the often difficult and frequently uplifting history of her own life and challenges as she tumbles through the mixture of events that helped contribute to the writer that she is today.

Poetry. One of New Mexico's finest contemporary poets, Miriam Sagan has consistently explored emotional clarity and compassion within life's myriad interactions. In her new book, RAG TRADE, she presents poems of borders--between nations and cultures, in history and the imagination. Crossing borders braids lives. Fabric serves as metaphor throughout these poems, whether the ikats of the Silk Road, prayer flags of Tibet, Rio Grande rug weaving, ...

Poetry. "Sagan writes with grace and verve.what is most remarkable is her ability to move among religious traditions, to convince us that at least within the borders of her poems many traditions can coexist peacefully.Brisk, vivid, clean, evocative and provocative, (her) poems are gentle and fierce investigations of late century life" -Jeff Gundy, Mid-American Review

Sagan's richly sensual writing blends elements of mature insight with deeply felt experience. These are poems of an examined life with moments of Zen clarity throughout. It is, in fact, the clarity that drives these poems. The language is careful but deliberate, exquisitely crafted and emotionally moving. One gets the sense that her desire to write poetry comes from the desire to give permanent voice to something in the experience of life - to...

Centered in northern New Mexico, this collection of poetry describes a series of journeys that create maps of place and memory. The poems travel south to deserts both mythical and real, east to childhood and the past, west to the Pacific and notions of Buddhism, and north to Alaska and a cold transcendence.

All the major formal aspects of poetry--from rhyme to meter and pantoum to villanelle--presented in an informal accessible style.