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March 1, 2019
"Just Breathe" review
5 Star review on Amazon
Micro Poem Affirmations At Its Finest!
It is the mark of an exceptional poet who can pen a micro poem, using as little words as possible to convey an inspirational message that will leave you in deep thought and contemplation. Christine Tabaka has accomplished this in 115 pages of poetic eloquence. Her words are truth as in Winter.../I am cold without you/but I am ice with you/abandonment.
She experiences life, love and loss with a heart of compassion and an intuitive mind as in, in the darkest corners/of the mind/hide visions that/ fear the light.
Another favorite of mine is I am too old/to be your plaything/exit my aging body/to enter my eternal mind/ wisdom.
This poet tackles the dark and light sides of life in an extraordinary poetic style. This is the type of book you want to carry with you each day to read the affirmation poems which will inspire your daily life. This is a must read for everyone.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re...
Micro Poem Affirmations At Its Finest!
It is the mark of an exceptional poet who can pen a micro poem, using as little words as possible to convey an inspirational message that will leave you in deep thought and contemplation. Christine Tabaka has accomplished this in 115 pages of poetic eloquence. Her words are truth as in Winter.../I am cold without you/but I am ice with you/abandonment.
She experiences life, love and loss with a heart of compassion and an intuitive mind as in, in the darkest corners/of the mind/hide visions that/ fear the light.
Another favorite of mine is I am too old/to be your plaything/exit my aging body/to enter my eternal mind/ wisdom.
This poet tackles the dark and light sides of life in an extraordinary poetic style. This is the type of book you want to carry with you each day to read the affirmation poems which will inspire your daily life. This is a must read for everyone.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re...
No More Hallelujahs
5 Star Review on Amazon
Read With a Seat-belt On
Ann Tabaka has a way with words that will sweep you along in a journey of engaging lines and complex emotions. A poet who takes the trouble to delve into more complex emotions, eschewing the easy route of simple broken hearts is a rare bird. Her work will not disappoint. Read this book with a seat-belt on.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re...No More HallelujahsN=179411971X
Read With a Seat-belt On
Ann Tabaka has a way with words that will sweep you along in a journey of engaging lines and complex emotions. A poet who takes the trouble to delve into more complex emotions, eschewing the easy route of simple broken hearts is a rare bird. Her work will not disappoint. Read this book with a seat-belt on.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re...No More HallelujahsN=179411971X
February 27, 2019
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January 15, 2019
"Just Breathe" review
I am honored with this post from Karunesh Kumar Agrawal, he is my publisher for "Just Breathe."
"The philosophical wisdom and depth of these poems reveals Ann Christine Tabaka's brilliance as a poet. Her concise and terse expression is quite impressive in such immortal phrases and lines, full of profound thoughts: "music is beauty/ to the soul", "the delicious feeling / of no place to be", "beneath the surface / lies the truth", "the moon calls my name/ it knows me well". The poems included in JUST BREATHE by Ann Christine Tabaka, one of the greatest contemporary poets, have an irresistible appeal. --Santosh Kumar, Editor, https://www.cyberwit.net/authors/ann-..."
"The philosophical wisdom and depth of these poems reveals Ann Christine Tabaka's brilliance as a poet. Her concise and terse expression is quite impressive in such immortal phrases and lines, full of profound thoughts: "music is beauty/ to the soul", "the delicious feeling / of no place to be", "beneath the surface / lies the truth", "the moon calls my name/ it knows me well". The poems included in JUST BREATHE by Ann Christine Tabaka, one of the greatest contemporary poets, have an irresistible appeal. --Santosh Kumar, Editor, https://www.cyberwit.net/authors/ann-..."
December 17, 2018
"Reaching for Dawn" book review
Please take a minute to read the fantastic review of my book "Reaching for Dawn" on the Realistic Poetry International site. The review is under the quote and the picture of my book (it is a tad long)! THANK YOU SO MUCH for your continuing support!!
https://www.realisticpoetry.com/singl...Reaching for Dawn
https://www.realisticpoetry.com/singl...Reaching for Dawn
September 20, 2018
Comment about my poems
The ultimate honor as far as I am concerned
Rita Oakes, is a retired Multimedia Producer, Director, Researcher, Designer, Editor, and Writer. She recently said this about two of my poems ("All is Lost" and "Hope Rising") that were published in Tuck Magazine: “So many poems are so inscrutable they are not worth the effort to read them. Not Christine’s! Deep and winding, rising and falling, some full of hope, some despair, always crafted with piercingly perfect phrases. Always rewarding in unexpected ways.” Such words of praise from a person who reads my work are better than any award.
Rita Oakes, is a retired Multimedia Producer, Director, Researcher, Designer, Editor, and Writer. She recently said this about two of my poems ("All is Lost" and "Hope Rising") that were published in Tuck Magazine: “So many poems are so inscrutable they are not worth the effort to read them. Not Christine’s! Deep and winding, rising and falling, some full of hope, some despair, always crafted with piercingly perfect phrases. Always rewarding in unexpected ways.” Such words of praise from a person who reads my work are better than any award.
September 4, 2018
Book Review "Just Breathe"
I am beyond Thrilled at receiving such a stunning review for my latest book "Just Breathe" by Dr. Santosh Kumar.
https://www.cyberwit.net/publications...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/938...
"
Author: Ann Christine Tabaka
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9789388125079
Publisher: Cyberwit.net
Pub. Date: 2018
Price: $14
Just Breathe is my seventh book of poetry, which includes two Haiku & Senryu books. This is my first book of all micro-poems. I love the challenge of telling a complete story in as few words as possible like a breath of fresh air. It allows the imagination to fill in the details and paint its own picture.
Editorial Review
Ann Christine Tabaka’s latest poetry collection JUST BREATHE leaves no doubt in the readers’ minds that she is a supreme poetic genius. Her poems are remarkable for splendid imagination and intense feeling. This is quite visible in the following extraordinary lines:
Hold me in your arms
But do not touch me
I am ice
And I will melt
The philosophical wisdom and depth of these poems reveals Ann Christine Tabaka’s brilliance as a poet. Her concise and terse expression is quite impressive in such immortal phrases and lines, full of profound thoughts: “music is beauty/ to the soul”, “the delicious feeling / of no place to be”, “beneath the surface / lies the truth”, “the moon calls my name/ it knows me well”.
The poems included in JUST BREATHE by Ann Christine Tabaka, one of the greatest contemporary poets, have an irresistible appeal.
- Santosh Kumar, Editor Cyberwit.net"
https://www.cyberwit.net/publications...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/938...
"
Author: Ann Christine Tabaka
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9789388125079
Publisher: Cyberwit.net
Pub. Date: 2018
Price: $14
Just Breathe is my seventh book of poetry, which includes two Haiku & Senryu books. This is my first book of all micro-poems. I love the challenge of telling a complete story in as few words as possible like a breath of fresh air. It allows the imagination to fill in the details and paint its own picture.
Editorial Review
Ann Christine Tabaka’s latest poetry collection JUST BREATHE leaves no doubt in the readers’ minds that she is a supreme poetic genius. Her poems are remarkable for splendid imagination and intense feeling. This is quite visible in the following extraordinary lines:
Hold me in your arms
But do not touch me
I am ice
And I will melt
The philosophical wisdom and depth of these poems reveals Ann Christine Tabaka’s brilliance as a poet. Her concise and terse expression is quite impressive in such immortal phrases and lines, full of profound thoughts: “music is beauty/ to the soul”, “the delicious feeling / of no place to be”, “beneath the surface / lies the truth”, “the moon calls my name/ it knows me well”.
The poems included in JUST BREATHE by Ann Christine Tabaka, one of the greatest contemporary poets, have an irresistible appeal.
- Santosh Kumar, Editor Cyberwit.net"
August 31, 2018
Book Reveiw of "Reaching for Dawn"
I am blown away by Duane Vorhees review of my book "Reaching for Dawn."
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"Reaching for Dawn: Poems by Ann Christine Tabaka" unfolds like series of fugues. As in her previous five collections, she claims that the contents were organized in the order in which they were written. And that may well be true (writers, after all, never prevaricate), but the volume as a whole betrays little in the way of arbitrary haphazardness. The opening piece, the titular "Reaching for Dawn" proclaims that "Past fades into the future." In Ann's book the past enlarges the future. A linked trio, "Spilled Milk" ("a liquid curtain of white"), "Raining tears," and "Fallen," follows, and they in turn are picked up in later poems ("Raining Tears" is contrapuntal to "Rainy Day Charm" and "And the Rains Come"). And so it goes, throughout the book. "Blind for a Day" resolves into "The Blink of an Eye" and "Eyes Wide Open;' "Vacant House" returns as "A House in Ruin;" "Daymare" becomes "Half Dream." Poems and lines and ideas occur and recur, bouncing off each other, reflecting upon and against themselves. Sometimes this is done in an orderly way, like the leitmotifs of a symphony, but more often it is like the ragtag riffs of a jazz performance. The book ends with "A New Day Dawns": A sleepy morning yawns. / stretching its arms across / the land. Moving into the / light, reaching for dawn....
Highly recommended!"
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re...
"Reaching for Dawn: Poems by Ann Christine Tabaka" unfolds like series of fugues. As in her previous five collections, she claims that the contents were organized in the order in which they were written. And that may well be true (writers, after all, never prevaricate), but the volume as a whole betrays little in the way of arbitrary haphazardness. The opening piece, the titular "Reaching for Dawn" proclaims that "Past fades into the future." In Ann's book the past enlarges the future. A linked trio, "Spilled Milk" ("a liquid curtain of white"), "Raining tears," and "Fallen," follows, and they in turn are picked up in later poems ("Raining Tears" is contrapuntal to "Rainy Day Charm" and "And the Rains Come"). And so it goes, throughout the book. "Blind for a Day" resolves into "The Blink of an Eye" and "Eyes Wide Open;' "Vacant House" returns as "A House in Ruin;" "Daymare" becomes "Half Dream." Poems and lines and ideas occur and recur, bouncing off each other, reflecting upon and against themselves. Sometimes this is done in an orderly way, like the leitmotifs of a symphony, but more often it is like the ragtag riffs of a jazz performance. The book ends with "A New Day Dawns": A sleepy morning yawns. / stretching its arms across / the land. Moving into the / light, reaching for dawn....
Highly recommended!"
August 26, 2018
Just Breathe book sites
My newest book "Just Breathe," now available at Cyberwit.net
Cyberwit.net
https://www.cyberwit.net/publications...
JacketFlap
https://www.jacketflap.com/bookdetail...
BookCrossing
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/...
Riffle
https://www.rifflebooks.com/books/100...
LibraryThing
https://www.librarything.com/work/222...
Cyberwit.net
https://www.cyberwit.net/publications...
JacketFlap
https://www.jacketflap.com/bookdetail...
BookCrossing
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/...
Riffle
https://www.rifflebooks.com/books/100...
LibraryThing
https://www.librarything.com/work/222...
August 20, 2018
Vita Brevis The Modern Poetry Magazine
Thank you Brian Geiger, editor of Vita Brevis - The Modern Poetry Magazine, for interviewing me for their new “Poet Profile” series. I am beyond thrilled to be their first poet up in this series!
Please check out the URL Link:
https://vitabrevisliterature.com/2018...
Please check out the URL Link:
https://vitabrevisliterature.com/2018...
Words Spill Out
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