Four Poems
by Rhoda Janzen
Rhoda Janzen honors her own reading in Martyrs Mirror by transforming its plain style and narrative into a complex poetic art, linking early Anabaptist suffering with wide-ranging literary and historical allusions--like the martyr in “Last Words,” who “instead of plain words . . . speaks in bright jewels, rubies and emeralds and aquamarines.”
Ann Hostetler
What a great word—cawl! I’ve been thinking about it all week in relationship to the murky places in my psyche!