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My Will is the Wall
In spare, fearless lines, Jo Ann Lordahl maps the interior life of a woman who has outlasted sorrow, chosen freedom over comfort, and learned to name her own loneliness without flinching. A stork struggles to swallow a fish too large. Silence rages. Love always costs more than it is worth. A free woman does what she wants — and keeps a wry, clear eye on the price.
Braided with Zen koans, hard-won aphorisms, and sudden grace, My Will Is the Wall spans decades of living and writing: grief without euphemism, desire without apology, wisdom without grandstanding. These poems arrived the way most true things do — through loss, through water-logged space, through being lost and found again.
The result is a book that reads like a conversation with the most honest person in the room. Spare. Exact. Unafraid.
My Will Is the Wall is for readers who want poetry that does not perform — poetry that simply tells the truth.
Other Books With JoAnn’s Poetry
Collected Poems bring together about 126 poems selected from seven chapbooks of poetry and assembled over more than 40 years. Included are first poems as well as hitherto unpublished poems in the Miscellaneous section.
I have written poetry, heavily researched both fiction and non-fiction books, and, in particular, written works of meditation and reflection. Amazon lists over 25 books including poetry, novels and non-fiction.
Argentine Journal: Coming of Age as a Poet
This coming of age, artist as a young woman explores four months travel in Argentina. Exposing growth of the artist, inner dynamics of writing poetry, it reveals interior views of Argentina and of a writer’s real life.