January 27, 2003

ARMSTRONG'S POETRY EVOKES STRONG IMAGES

Nature�s roots in the imagination, milestones along the cultural highway, and childhood memories are explored in Landscapes of Epiphany, a new poetry book by Boise State education professor Jamie Armstrong.

�What I truly admire about Jamie�s poetry and photography is the breath of physical and spiritual landscape � as it moves with precision inside and outside of the geography of what he knows, feels, imagines and believes,� writes author Gino Sky of Armstrong�s work.

Armstrong�s poems evoke strong images. In �Corona,� he muses about the power of daffodils: Daffodils never wait to bloom/Past the last thought of frost/That could freeze them/Into the mind�s museum. In a poem entitled �Turning 51 in Late Autumn,� Armstrong describes a streamside scene, then adds, I am no more certain now/than long ago/sitting on the bridge rail/held safely/in my father�s circling arm/.

Armstrong is also the  author of a first book of poems, Moon Haiku, and a textbook, Reading Tools for College Study. His poetry has appeared in a number of magazines, journals and anthologies.

Landscapes in Epiphany (Wolf Peach Press, $12 plus tax) is available at the Boise State Bookstore, several local bookstores, at the Log Cabin Literary Center or at wolfpeachpressllc@msn.com.

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426-3974

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426-1790

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