Parking Lot Mood Swing: Autobiographical Monologues And Prose Poetry

Literature & Fiction

Robbins, Doren

Poetry

Cedar Hill Books

Poetry. BLACK LIGHTNING is about the Great Irish Hunger and immigration to America. Jean Flanagan teaches literature and writing at Pine Manor College and Middlesex Community College. She also teaches in the Changing Lives Through Literature Program at Roxbury District Court. The author has also written Ibbetson Street (Garden Street Press, 1993).

Black Lightning

Flanagan, Jean

Poetry. "Maggie Jaffe's poems have a rare power and beauty that says something profound about the world we live in" - Howard Zinn. "This book ought to come with warning labels: 'Danger! Explosive Material!'; 'Mind-Altering Substance - Use with Care'; and, most important of all, 'Do not be captured with this book in your possession.' The blazing vision of Maggie Jaffe's poems transforms America's prisons into a BOOK OF REVELATIONS for our epoch" - H. Bruce Franklin. "Riot. Lock down. The guard -- / gray gun-metal eyes and serial-killer/ smile - barks, WHO STARTED THIS?/ Twelve hands go up. TWELVE/ DAYS IN THE HOLE./ WHO DIDN'T? Fifteen hands reach for the overhead pipes./ FIFTEEN DAYS IN THE HOLE./ He beats his nightstick with a pulsing/ rhythm against his thigh, all the while/ softly moaning, I'M GETTING HARD,/ MAN, GETTING HARD." - "Ultimate Aphrodisiac."

The Prisons

Jaffe, Maggie

Arts & Photography

<p>Poetry. "After generations of women writers who helped women and men by saying what was wrong, Sharon Doubiago helps us even more by saying what could be right. She is sexual without submission, loving without loss of self, and free without rebellion. With a poet's power and a novelist's scope, she describes new feelings, new possibilities, and a new closeness to the natural world" - Gloria Steinhem. "Doubiago meets the test of the best prophetic writing by looking straight at her subjects without flinching, for finding the exquisite details that elucidate the whole, and for feeling so deeply about the subjects that they acquire the power of song" - Charles Potts.</p>

Body & Soul

Doubiago, Sharon

Poetry. "BEYOND RENEWAL" has a voice reminiscent of George Orwell, spare, underplayed, observant commentary coupled to small-scale narratives, well-glued and carpentered contraptions...The power of the poem is held tightly to the range of an anti-heroic speech, whose toughly stoic or lightly plangent registers compel our attention without fuss" - Anthony O'Brien. "George Held has not only mastered traditional verse forms that too many of us, I fear, have forsaken - sonnet, cinquain, triolet - he is also master of the sleight-of-hand" - Vince Clemente.

Beyond Renewal

Held, George

Poetry. "...poems with the shock of rightness - Cid Corman's poems. The look of delicacy is deceptive. More often it's leanness, poems growing from their own center - no influences, no formal props - then taking us back to the center by the shortest route. There, at center, leanness and rightness become song, an intensity of meaning that makes words pure. We know we have experienced real poetry because we have been where poetry really is" - Hayden Carruth."As if life were the/ most important thing/ on earth and earth were/ important and then/ we get a sudden/ glimpse of galaxies/ and black holes beyond." - "THE IMPORT."

The Despairs

CORMAN, Cid

Poetry. "Like any true poet, Lucille Lang Day scans the outer world of jungles and stars for clues to the inner universe of feeling and thought. She does this by exploring scientific language and ideas for hints-metaphors, facts, images-that might reveal something about the meaning of personal experience. Her poems are eloquent, imaginative, and informed by a knowledge of contemporary science. The creation she honors is God's, the vast ineffable realm of macro-and-microscopic nature. By doing this she honors as well the persistent, equally ineffable mystery of the human realm"-Kurt Brown.

Infinities

Day, Lucille Lang

Poetry. "Carol [Lem] displays an affection for family, poets, students, and her dead lover that is vivid, honest, and memorable. She has created a book whose spirit this writer can borrow from, learn from. The music of her shakuhachi - the wind instrument she pitches in private - resounds on each page. When Carol Lem plays that ancient flute, we have no choice but to listen, entranced"- Gary Soto. "'How do I make my own life interesting and compelling to strangers?' is a question that should face every autobiographical poet. Carol Lem has managed to find an answer which is made up of her sharp powers of observation and her awareness of the poetic traditions that inform her poems"- Billy Collins.

Shadow of the Plum

Lem, Carol

United States

Poetry. "Richard Hoffman's poems are quietly daring. In an era dominated by the 'plain style,' he achieves formal elegance without stooping to mere facility. In an age of sometimes ponderous confessionalism, he dares to be funny (but never sardonic or facetious). Still these are poems of high aspiration and accomplishment, that contemplate large and deep issues with power and conviction- John Hildebidle. "Without Paradise is a book full of joy & surprise & sorrow & wit - the very emotions and qualities that remind us we're still alive and thinking.Open this up. Read some. You need what this book has" --William B. Patrick.

Without Paradise

Hoffman, Richard

Poetry. "The Miranda of the brilliant opening sequence in Kathleen Aguero's new collection, DAUGHTER OF embodies Gilles and Guatarri's radical insight, from ANTI-OEDIPUS, that "the unconsciousness is an orphan and creates itself out of nature and man." Forged of equal parts will and insight, the Miranda who abandons her fate for the dark lore of her mother and brother is the mind and heart that course through all of the poems of this collection. Wide ranging and masterful in form, they wed sheer lyric gorgeousness with discursive gravity" Linda McCarriston. Be sure to check out Kathleen Aguero's other book, THE REAL WEATHER, also available from SPD.

Daughter Of

Aguero, Kathleen

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