Publication Party for Shy Lands

Sunday, April 23
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Danish American Center
3030 W. River Pkwy.
Minneapolis, MN 55406

Diane Jarvenpa announces the publication of her new book of poetry, Shy Lands, published by Blue Light Press!

Join her for a book release celebration Sunday, April 23rd at the Danish American Center, Minneapolis.

Refreshments available and maybe also a few tunes.

“There is a subtle and proficient music in Diane Jarvenpa’s poems. They derive their power from how deeply she sees and listens to herself and to the earth.We can both celebrate and grieve earth’s wonders, those which are extinct and those which are gloriously still with us — if we immerse ourselves in the natural world and “let it enter and grow in our bodies.” – Freya Manfred

“Shy Lands, the country Diane Jarvenpa inhabits, the country we all inhabit, is ravaged and threatened, but still, with her power to convert the observed into a ‘cold wild song,’ she finds for all of us some kind of inspired redemption.” – Tim Nolan

“She uses words the way an impressionist painter deploys color, ‘know[ing] how all this works, the close and the distant, / the heap and faded, / the swoop and the click.’ This new beauty is only possible in a shy and quiet land, the one she creates for us here.” – Joyce Sutphen