Background
Orlowsky, Pelahia Dzvinia was born on May 13, 1953 in Cambridge, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Miroslaus and Tamara Orlowsky.
(Originally published in 1994 by Carnegie Mellon Universit...)
Originally published in 1994 by Carnegie Mellon University Press, A Handful of Bees has been republished as a Classic Contemporary by Carnegie Mellon. The collection embarks with poems reflecting on the passing of Mrs. Orlowsky's father (to whom the book is dedicated). Orlowsky raises the tragedy of losing a parent to a universal plane that's both earnest and cathartic, where even simple belongings of the deceased are imbued with power and testimony. There is a thread of sadness that plaits its way through this volume. Even through the poems on life with immigrant parents, there is a stark, visible yearning. The world of home and the world outside and the conflict of the two to coexist. A situation that many Americans of any given ethnicity can immediately grasp. Imagery in A Handful of Bees is never random, but lucid, in the moment like hot glass forged into a sharp gem. A Handful of Bees is immediately personal, international, and, filtered through the prism of the heart, these poems come forth universally. Dzvinia Orlowsky films a screenplay for the intuition. In just this one volume of sixty-one pages, she undefeatedly answers as many life questions as she has conjured. With stealth, imparting the reader a sense of "being there" in the human condition. —Mike Amado / Ibbetson Update /2008/ Somerville, Massachusetts
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Orlowsky, Pelahia Dzvinia was born on May 13, 1953 in Cambridge, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Miroslaus and Tamara Orlowsky.
Bachelor, Oberlin College, 1975. Master of Fine Arts in Poetry, Warren Wilson College, 1991.
Instructor University Southern Maine, 2003. Instructor creative writing workshops Mount Holyoke Writers Conference, South Hadley, Massachusetts, 1994, Boston Center for Adult Education, 1996-1999, Stonecoast Writer's Conference, University Southern Maine, Gorham, 2000, 2001, Emerson College, Boston, 2000. Guest lecturer, poet Boston University, Emerson College, Harvard University, Putterham Branch Public Library., Mount Holyoke Writers Conference.
Participant in numerous conferences, workshops, seminars.
(Originally published in 1994 by Carnegie Mellon Universit...)