Description
What marvelous poems these are, and how complete a collection. Like a circus aerialist who makes us gasp one moment and laugh the next, the poet takes us from her immigrant father's Macedonian roots to her own maturity, to the life of a woman who is smart and well-read yet knows her way around a Coney Island hot dog and finds the attentions of a drunk cowboy oddly flattering. There are so many good poems here that it's hard to pick a favorite, but I'll put my money on "Confessions of an Ugly Nightgown," in which a dead woman's shapeless article of intimate apparel says it can still rouse a sleeping husband and is loveliest as it lies on the floor.
--David Kirby, Get Up, Please
Author: Karen Holmes
Publisher: Terrapin Books
Published: 02/01/2018
Pages: 102
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d
ISBN13: 9780998215976
ISBN10: 099821597X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | Women Authors