Three California women--Sheila, a restless, moody college graduate, her mother, Kate, who yearns to escape a stale marriage for her early love, painting, and Audrey, Kate's mother and a retired fashion executive--confront new challenges, crises, and decisions in their lives

Gardens

Prado, Holly

Harcourt

Poetry. A stunning retrospective of Prado's lengthy, productive creative life,THESE MIRROS PROVE IT includes selections from all her major works, aswell as material too long scattered in now out of print magazines. Shewrites with a lyricism inspired by her ability to move into the depths ofthe psyche and bring back the messages found there. Diane DiPrima haswritten, about Prado's book ESPERANZA: "These poems hold a sweet ripeness,a vast dark promise that poetry will heal us, will heal the world." RobertPeters' response to previous writing has been, "Her writing is done,metaphorically speaking, with a unique, knife-sharp edge. Prado is bothpassionate and visionary." This book makes available Prado'sstrongest, most generous writing; it comes into the world at a time when weall need the healing true poetry and poetic-prose can offer.

These Mirrors Prove It: Selected Poems And Prose 1970-2003

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Cahuenga Press

Poetry. FROM ONE TO THE NEXT is Holly Prado's tenth book. The writing is gathered into three sections. The first two carry distilled, succinct poems focusing on a complete lunar cycle and its events; on mother loss and redemption of that loss. The third section, prose poems, looks with practiced clarity at marriage, aging, illness and renewal. Alison Townsend, in The Women's Review of Books (Wellesley College), has said: "Prado has...the ability to capture and describe the relationship between interior and exterior worlds in a manner that is simultaneously grounded and filled with mystery."

From One to the Next

Poetry. "The last time I saw Holly Prado, whom I'd known forty years, we were part of a group performance of Song of Myself at Beyond Baroque. Now we have her experiment in the long poem, WEATHER, a single, book-length poem in the larger tradition of Whitman's personal epic, presenting the account of a voyage, lasting from fall 2015 to fall of 2018, through the inner seasons of a mythically conscious woman's Los Angeles. In a more specific tradition, Prado's work is in the line of Diane Wakoski, Anaïs Nin, Diane DiPrima, Lyn Hejinian, and other women who have written with wisdom and courage about their resonantly three-dimensional inner lives. Sadly, it is her last book; but a near-compensation is, it is her best. Farthest and deepest in reach, a modernist collage orchestrated by an expressive hand, the poem is open enough to be entered virtually anywhere, yet organically shaped by a mature mythic awareness to have narrative momentum and coherence. Beautifully turned phrases, sentences, and lines abound. An example: 'Out in the huge autumn sky, / leonid meteors give us their message: Don't think too much / of your human pursuits. Don't think you won't be / dissolved in everything wilder than you. Enter / your myths with your open-palmed hands on your knees.' 'Dissolved in everything wilder than you' --that is the state of feeling and vision Prado's imagination makes available to us. It is also the promise all real poetry makes: that our veil of pursuits be lifted, that we see the wild truth."--James Cushing

Weather

Renowned poet Holly Prado shares intimate and touching autobiographical vignettes sure to delight long-time fans as well as new readers. "The unshakeable craft in every sentence of Holly Prado's memoir, "Really Truly," makes you forget you are reading and ushers you quietly into a wonderland ...There are darks and lights of every variety here and episode by episode they gather onto a portrait on par with, say, a late Rembrandt or, closer to home, one by Alice Neal. Brava!" -- Aram Saroyam, author of "Complete Minimal Poems" "Searching and intelligent, their intuitive perceptions and lunar logic grounded in the life of the body and exceptionally nuanced understanding of the outer world, these sharply-etched lyrical essays are pages from a Book of Life, one inhabited deeply, reverently, and completely. "Really Truly" is a gorgeous collection." -- Alison Townsend, author of "Persephone in America" and "The Blue Dress: Poems and Prose Poems"

Really Truly: Autobiographies

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Green Tara Press