Tag: theaterwork
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Out of Thebes
A play became the poems, which became a brand new play! Out of Thebes is in full swing in Santa Fe, NM: Santa Fe New Mexican article
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Radio Appearance 1/26
I’ll be on KUNM’s Spoken Word Hour with Ramona King this week– Sunday, January 26th at 8pm. You can listen via the stream here: kunm.org. Poet Lauren Camp will be there too!
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“…a brilliant range of voices.”
“The poems of Angela Janda’s Small Rooms With Gods, provoked by an adaptation of Jean Anouilh’s Antigone, take the ancient Greek story into new territory, beyond the direct clash of state authority and social duty, and into the subtler terrain of ambiguous relationships and emotional compromises. Janda escorts us through the various characters’ motives, actions,…
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“…the absolute sparseness and beauty of the language.”
“It’s good to be with Angela Janda in Small Rooms with Gods. ‘There is so much prayer here,’ she says, ‘that a person hardly knows what to do. / But give away parts of themselves, / in pieces, or as a whole thing’— which is exactly what she does in this marvelous collection. She writes…
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“This is a wonderful collection.”
“In Small Rooms with Gods, Angela Janda makes us stand on the bloody ground of Thebes, and demonstrates once again that come what may ‘there will always be some who will have to die.’ They are all here, Antigone, Creon, Ismene, Eurydice, Haemon, Teiresias, and even Oedipus, and we see them all from a new…
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“These poems grab both mind and heart.”
“In poems simultaneously contemporary and timeless, this collection imaginatively probes the existential crises underlying the Antigone story. The poems less directly about Antigone somehow become mythic by association. The analysis is thoughtful; the language is taut, meditative, and resonant; the imagery and music are subtly insistent. These poems grab both mind and heart.” -Mark Z.…
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“…beautifully written and deftly arranged.”
“Angela Janda’s poems are beautifully written and deftly arranged. Any reader familiar with the tales of Antigone and Oedipus will recognize these ancient figures in this collection. Their tragic resoluteness is there and keenly exposed, yet Ms. Janda’s creative use of language and imagery holds the reader in the contemporary world of swimming pools, candy…
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Small Rooms with Gods
Order via Finishing Line Press Order via Amazon In April 2011, I performed in a Theaterwork production staged in the abandoned Tino Griego Municipal Pool off Llano St in Santa Fe. The play was Antigone by Jean Anouilh. Before and during and after my time in the pool, I wrote a book of poems, partly…
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