“This poignant collection serves as an important reminder of the fragile and tenuous nature of our own existence, the incredible power of art, love, community and the awe- inspiring mystery, beauty and hope we can all find when we take the time to reconnect with nature and ourselves.”
– Paul F. Crawford
Director/Curator at Penticton Art Gallery
“[Granirer] doesn’t shout but almost whispers the powerful themes of war, plague, sadness, joy and memory, questioning the human condition with delicacy and compassion.”
– Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
Author of Out of the Dark and Mouth of Truth: Buried Secrets
Artist Pnina Granirer is also a poet who has written verse since 1945, when the 10-year-old expressed her joy at the end of WW2. The poems range in space from Romania to Israel to Canada, and include many vignettes recorded with a painter’s eye and a haiku-like intensity. Some are vividly illustrated with images selected from her long career in visual art. Among my favourites were descriptions of a racoon washing its paws, a glass of sangria in Spain, and eroded sandstones rocks in the Gulf Islands. The book ends with a moving elegy for her recently deceased husband. Readers will find much to treasure in this rich selection from the work of a talented poet-painter.
– Graham Good, Professor Emeritus of English, UBC. Translator of Rilke’s Late Poetry and Goethe’s Poems
“This collection of poems encompasses a range of subject matters, offering personal reflections that are variously joyous, sharp and heartbreaking. Interspersed with Granirer’s writing are artworks spanning many years of painting. Time collapses within these pages. They offer a window into a vivid life lived in extraordinary times, and a woman enchanted with the world around her.”
– George Harris, Curator/Director Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC