Vago: loveliness within reach yet impossible to grasp
A full-length collection of poetry, Vago ties the past to the present. Kolosov's poems explore the beauties of the world while acknowleging their frailty.
Reviews
"Romanticize the past and lose it," writes Jacqueline Kolosov in her lovely and wise Vago, where past and present are counterposed in rich relation and in poetic colors of remarkable sensuosity and elegance. Over all hovers the spirit of the remarkable Oma, Kolosov's Slovenian grandmother, who will remain in the reader's memory long after he or she hands the book to a friend, imploring, 'You must read this.'"
~B. H. Fairchild
"Jacqueline Kolosov's impressive collection, Vago, takes its title from an Italian Renaissance word meaning "loveliness within reach but impossible to grasp," and indeed this poet gives voice to the world's lavish beauties while yet remaining mindful of their transience and elusiveness. At once fluent and delicate, attunded to art and literature as to nature's fleeting wonders and the perenniel deprivations of history, these poems refuse the easy irony so prevalent in today's poetry for language that is as descriptively precise as it is luxuriant. Vago is a record of rapturous beholdings."
~Daniel Tobin
Vago is published by Lewis-Clark Press.
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