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The possibilities and contradictions of a twenty-first-century pilgrimage are revealed: inevitably informed by tourism and technology, yet offering new kinds of fellowship and connection in an age of individualism and rootlessness. Animated by song and conversation, the poem is filled with the stories of those encountered along the way, combining a multi-voiced soundscape with vivid verbal sketches of landscape and architecture. Show bookīook of Days is a long poem recounting a journey along the popular pilgrimage route, or 'Camino' to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. These poems result from a long writing life and study of both past and contemporary poets. Looking into the known - or half known - past of family history, the poem can disclose the fallibility of memory but also how present relates to past and how the present with its difficulties intrudes on any consideration of how to live. Accessible language and natural rhythms are always important though used variously. They work for clarity and memorable perception. Some use traditional patterns in unexpected ways, sometimes including rhyme, sometimes in more fluid forms.

All the poems are concerned with the interest and excitement of language itself. They consider memory, peace and its opposite, the inwardness and variety of the natural world, and how an individual relates to others. Her poems view the world calmly, thoughtfully. Her parents, both teachers, encouraged her to write poetry as a child and overcame wartime paper rationing to make her a book to write them in. Written and drawn by Faith Erin Hicks and colored by Jordie Bellaire, "The Stone Heart," the second volume in the "Nameless City" series, is available now.Jenny King was born in London during the Blitz. I really try and instil this in all my characters." And all of a sudden that future is threatened and he lashes out as a result. "He’s been raised with this idea of what his future is. He sees himself as a savior figure, someone who could potentially save the city," Hicks said. "The villain in 'The Stone Heart,' Erzi, has very specific, very human motivations. The author also gave readers some further insight into what fans can expect in "The Stone Heart," the second book in the "Nameless City" series. RELATED: PREVIEW: "Lumberjanes:" Beyond Bay Leaf #1 It was always supposed to be a comic and it was super cool when Frederator and Recursion approached me about partnering to make this thing happen. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly about the deal, and her new book, Hicks said, “I always envisioned 'The Nameless City' as a comic.