The Desert Art, Poems by Theresa Pappas

The Desert Art is a journey of the world—and of the soul. Theresa Pappas’ wide-ranging collection of lyrics and narratives brings a wide scope to an intimate scale.

Sample Poems by Theresa Pappas

“In The Desert Art, Theresa Pappas guides us through a tour of physical and emotional landscapes. Along the way, we delight with her in the mysteries of nature and the wonders of humans interacting with the mythologies and realities of place. From Sparta, Greece, to Kalona, Iowa, to the Desert of Maine, from celebrating birthdays, to examining the subject of beauty, to embracing the experience of birth, Pappas surveys a wide world of roads you’ll want to travel.”—Mary Swander

From reviews of Flash Paper:

“This collection of poems, many of which have appeared in literary magazines, gives shape to the substantial achievements of a clear new voice in American poetry. Loosely grouped by themes, they sail together with austere ease…Pappas sees the way a good poet must see—as if for the first time.”—Leonard Kniffel

“Greece, her ancestral home, anchors Theresa Pappas’s first book and is the setting for her richest poems. But sensuality, not geography, dominates…frequently just beneath the surface of an observed scene or in words the poet ascribes to inanimate objects…

“These are thoughtful poems centered in the everyday world, even when their locales are exotic. Pappas presents them with an assured and mature voice.”—Janet Holmes

Theresa Pappas was born and grew up in Baltimore. Her first collection of poems, Flash Paper, won the Minnesota Voices Project Competition and was published by New Rivers Press. Her work has received literary awards from the Iowa Arts Council, Iowa Woman magazine, and the Florida Poetry Contest, and she has twice received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony. Her poems have appeared in Carolina Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, Poetry East, The Antioch Review, and other journals. She has taught at Tufts University and Iowa State University and worked as a Visiting Writer in Iowa and Alabama. She lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, with her husband, writer Michael Martone, and their two sons.

ISBN 1932339655, 88 pages, $17.00

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