| | Luisa Elena Kolker is the author of "The Tearing Apart," an award-winning collection of poems published by Renegade Oracle Press (available on Amazon). "For me, poetry is a mystical language that bridges the space between my ego consciousness and the unconscious undercurrents of my life. It is a way I commune with the dimensions of aliveness that defy rational containment. I write poetry to visit and receive the healing power of those dimensions. |
"Poems usually come to me when I feel deeply moved by the beauty or pain of life. I hear a phrase and it stays with me until I write it down. Sometimes I don’t understand the phrase, but I sense that it has intelligence and power. Once I write it down, the phrase becomes a skeleton key that opens doors into my psyche. I allow the words to flow in the moment and then usually revise, expand, and contract the poem over a period of months or years. Sometimes a poem arrives whole and complete, but that’s the exception rather than the rule. It’s important to me that each word and sentence in my poems convey soul essence."
—Luisa Elena Kolker
—Luisa Elena Kolker
