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The growing collection
of Winona Bowen's poetry brings into play manifold elements
which builds the character of a person with a positive and
firm outlook on life. These elements include her native American
background and her Western homeland with Hispanic/Indian/
American influences, with its wide geographies and its high
skies, the sand hills of New Mexico, where she moves repeatedly
in a territory known fully to herself--- sweeping desert scenes,
vistas of a mountain range's high green forests, and a fertile
river valley.
It also calls on her far-flung aerial travels, runs on her
long-used travel meter, reflects her intense interest and
devotion to the cause of aviation and those who handle its
controls--through their passage in air and an acknowledging
flight of words, the command of languages. Her sense of space,
the high-blue outer and the soft yet resililient inner, asks
old questions and gives off new answers. She moves quietly
and surely, with open eyes, seeking answers from the "Woman
At The Loom"--Face of leather, lines of wear,/ sunken
dark eyes/Long black hair....Where are your thoughts, old
woman? or can veer with graceful swiftness to a fighter pilot's
homing instinct as he heads back to base, the nose popped
down and over. The diversity here, and the clarity, is sometimes
chilling.
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