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ABOUT INGRID WENDT
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Ingrid Wendt, whose parents were each raised in German-speaking
families in Valpariaso, Chile, and on a farm in southwest Michigan, spent
the year 1994-1995 as a Senior Fulbright Professor in Frankfurt am Main,
Germany. She has won the Oregon Book Award in Poetry with Singing the
Mozart Requiem, the Carolyn Kizer award from Calapooya Collage, and the
D.H. Lawrence Award. Her other books include Moving the House (poetry); From
Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry; In Her Own Image:
Women Working in the Arts; and Starting With Little Things: A
Guide to Writing Poetry in the Classroom. She conducts poetry workshops
and residencies in public schools and universities throughout the western
United States, most recently with the faculty of the MFA program at Antioch
University, Los Angeles. She lives in Eugene, Oregon, with her husband,
poet and writer Ralph Salisbury. |

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Blow the Candle Out
Ingrid Wendt
$7.00
ISBN:
978-1-931247-06-1
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Blow the Candle Out comprises two poetic sequences, "Learning
the Mother Tongue," which first appeared in Prairie Schooner, and "Questions
of Mercy," which first appeared in Nimrod International Journal.
The following poem is a part of "Learning the Mother Tongue":
2.
But this is what comes of book learning, not every day stretching
the tongue: discipline, discipline, flash cards, syllables
splashing in and out of the ear
out of context: out of their forests
of kelp: circling, circling, whole
words unbidden as fragments of tunes
Denkbar, I hear, and its one of those reef
fish floating up
to my face mask, right out of my fish classification book
but right then the name wont come, I have to look it up
Ergebnis, I hear, (outcome/result)
Abgeschiedenheit (solitude): listen
what am I telling myself, and in whose voice?
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