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. "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. "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

Poetry. "With a delicacy of language and craft, Denise Bergman creates and recreates the life of Annie Sullivan, her early years, her passions for light and its textures in spite of her ever-present darkness. The poems evoke a life of hope as well as incredible courage. Bergman's extraordinary poems translate darkness into light"--Marjorie Agosin. "SEEING ANNIE SULLIVAN approaches sight on multiple levels. One sees--quite literally, in beautiful poetic evocation--this great teacher's early years. One sees as she saw and as she taught her famous pupil to see: substituting sensibility for vision and channeling life's need and energy into an all but impossible task. These poems are marvelous and their composite a gift"--Margaret Randall.

Seeing Annie Sullivan

Bergman, Denise

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