Lady Janes Miscellany: Volume 1 Issue 2

Literature & Fiction

Jane, Lady

Literary

San Francisco Bay Press

A book of forty poems, all arising from a common subject, carefully arranged in a well-structured sequence. Within the boundaries of that subject matter-the Biblical story of Noah and the Ark as viewed and spoken by Noah's wife-there is a virtuoso's variety of verse forms (even including a couple of concrete poems), some elaborate and complex, richly intricate, and some free and easy, and all carefully, gracefully controlled by the author.

Mrs. Noah's Journal

Bickerstaff, Patsy

Poetry

Apocryphal

Evas, Anna

and girls are made of stone and silent gardens

Hewitt, Jeff

In Domestic Apparition, Meg Tuite’s narrator opens the lid on a shoebox full of anonymous women–and reveals a trainwreck of Americana both familiar and fragmented from the forbidden lesbians and catholic school drama of the late 1960’s, maturing into a haunted and cynical adulthood. Tuite’s narrator is the clever camera eye that sees all, orbiting eclectic brothers, sisters, nuns, college roomates, corporate bosses and suicidal aunts with wonder, empathy and morbid fascination.

Let's Call It Paradise

Maggio, Mike

From the first to the last page of The Embrace: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Poems, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda captures and evokes the spiritual richness and artistic quaking of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and their complicated, love-torn lives. With sumptuous imagery, yet acute precision and detail, the book delves into the artistic, marital and physical struggles of the artists, detailing how Kahlo, who even as she was undergoing painful surgeries and engaging her work, anguished about her husband Diego Rivera’s famous infidelities. The Rivera poems are sometimes delicate, sometimes swarthy and muscular, representing the painter’s physical and imagistic largess, as well as his interaction with his beloved Kahlo — an endearing, nonchalant kiss. Kreiter-Foronda’s portrait of these artists explores work, lives, and their well-documented Titan-like dance in an authentic voice, giving life and breath to not only Kahlo’s surreal self-portraits, the tragic accident that became her artistic nexus, Diego’s “art for the people” stance, but also the stoic and defiant voices of the artists that emboldened first the Mexican people and subsequently, the world. With its kinetic energy and bold envisioning, The Embrace is a well-researched, supremely crafted and perfectly executed narrative “embrace.” ––Shonda Buchanan, author of Who’s Afraid of Black Indians?

The Embrace: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo: Poems by Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda

Kreiter-Foronda, Carolyn

Rumble Seat is-- as the title suggest-- a wild ride. Jeff Hecker is a smart but daring driver, someone a reader learns to trust and fear. You can't help but admire his amazing vision, his ability to both build a road and steer at the same time. I read poetry to be knocked out of my daily stupor. I read poetry for the chance to have an intimate meeting with someone who's figured out a way to wrestle this life to sweaty stand-off. Rumble Seat offers both. --Tim Seibles, author of Buffalo Head Solos

Rumble Seat

Hecker, Jeffrey

The Gospel According to the Seven Dwarves

Lianne, Lenny

No Photography Permitted

"Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda’s poems strike the ear along with the intelligence, evoking the natural world, visual art, and questions of self, transcendence, and responsibility, in the lyric mode. Her poems embrace the great subjects of the lyric: the intense, intuitive, and revelatory relationships that one thinking person can effect through observation, memory, and experience. . . . This poet is also doubly gifted, doubly trained, and brings a painter’s eye to the task of words. . . . Kreiter-Foronda’s poems remind us that seeing has its own way of meaning, and knowledge can arise from immersed observation as clearly as from overt acts of thinking. Her poems develop an idea of individual responsibility in relation to what is natural. In moments of intense emotion time is stilled, yet expands; these poems open like flowers with illuminated moments of double vision, inviting and challenging us to look again, revise our cursory sight and think more deeply." -- Cathryn Hankla, “Redoubled Visions: Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda’s Lyrics,” Four Virginia Poets Laureate (2004-2012), Edited by Sofia M. Starnes, Poet Laureate of Virginia (2012-2014)

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