Ode to El Camino de Santiago and Other Poems of Journey - Paperback

by James E. Green (Author)

Ode to El Camino de Santiago and Other Poems of Journey is a collection of poems written in a variety of forms. The reader will find sonnets, a villanelle, rhyming quatrains, blank verse, and free verse. While the forms are varied, the theme connecting these poems is one of journey. Although, journey is understood as more than mere travel to other places. These poems are journeys of the meditative kind where destination is to be found in reflection, and arrival found in mindfulness. The settings range from a pilgrim's path in Spain in the opening poem to a childhood home in the closing one, and in between are others as far-flung as a refugee camp in Myanmar, a market square in Marrakech, and the rocky coast of Ireland.

Author Biography

James E. Green is a retired university professor and administrator. He has published four chapbooks of poetry in addition to this one, with individual poems having appeared in literary journals in Ireland, the UK, and the USA. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, as well as nominations for Sundress Publications' Best of the Net and the MLA Conference on Christianity Book of the Year. His website can be found at www.jamesgreenpoetry.net.