Tales from the Mirwood

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Book Review: </strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Karen Lee Oliver's</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Tales from the Mirwood</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a collection of poems that resemble surreal dreams with many mysterious images (spiral staircases labyrinths twilight) that often come alive through personification. </span></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Oliver also includes more personal-seeming poems pieces written in first person that peel back the illusions of the day to reveal a haunted narrator as in A Dark Illusion which begins: I live /With all the horrors/ Of the night/ To which /My soul has an aversion. Many of the poems have medieval storylines and characters. These more intimate vulnerable and searching poems give readers a welcome sense of the contemporary psyche while still written with a gothic style. </span></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Those that hunger for mystical nature-oriented fantasy will find much to enjoy. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- BlueInk Review </span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>About the Author: </strong></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(14 16 26 1)>Karen Lee Oliver</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(14 16 26 1)> was born in Poughkeepsie New York on October the first in 1959. She furthered a potential career in ballet by moving to New York City in 1973 and there studied on scholarship at American Ballet Theatre. Ms. Oliver graduated from the State University of New York at Albany with a B.A. degree in English Literature Major/ Theater Arts Major in 1981. She has since retired from ballet and pursued her literary forte poetry. Ms. Oliver published Pergola in 2002 with Xlibris and continues her poetic theme of love and reflection in the sequel </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(14 16 26 1)>Tales From the Mirwood. </em></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(14 16 26 1)>Tales From The Mirwood was written as a sequel to Pergola my first collection of poems. Tales From the Mirwood follows story-life fantasies that develop out of nature history art fiction religion and everyday life. Although in Tales From the Mirwood these dream- like images are never clearly defined they are presented to the reader to envision as he or she chooses. </span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>