Storyville

After charting lows and highs in her previous two collections, Storyville reveals Linda France exploring the longitude and latitude of her familiar territory - the badlands of love and sex, music and memory. The book is divided into three parts. Storyville: improvisations on the theme of jazz. Home Movies: poems about remembering and forgetting, about the life in art and the art in life. And On the Game: a series of pieces addressing the problem of prostitution. She's still seduced by extremes - equally at home with grit and velvet, still greedy for rich imagery and exotic allusions - but this new work introduces a greater distance, an awareness that the map isn't the same as the territory.