if you like hard hitting, no holds barred, tell it like it is, non-saccharine verses; The Fateful Apple will provide a powerful change of pace poetry read.
Thought-provoking Read Recommended 4 stars This slim volume,
The Fateful Apple, offers 38 individual odes sandwiched between the Foreward, and the end notes. Beginning with Abortion in the Garden of Eden Thrash opens with Deep in the heart of the Garden of Eden and moves toward Tutankhamen’s tomb, continues on to Atlanta, mention The Tree of Life and The Tree of Knowledge and womankind bearing the brunt of Eve’s disobedience; the reader is left breathless but driven turn the page and check the words coming next. Individual elegies bear single word titles or short phrases drawing the reader into the work to learn what the poet is offering in each. Homage, Womanology, Uncivil, Home, Twirl are a few of the verses having single word titles. Approval is one woman’s poignant yearning to have men view her as a woman who happens to be lesbian and not as one of the boys. Three separate works are devoted to Rincon, Georgia, while others adjoining those three, include ones remembering growing up and dealing with the reality of prejudice and ignorance, Years May Go By, Gunpowder Lives, and Born Black bring that stark reality to the reader. Self-probing verses Cutting It Close, Let Me Come Back, To the Fems are offered in unambiguous examination of personal identity. And, there are works about family, Cycles, Worlds Between Us, Uncivil, Years May Go By, Angel, and Playing Daddy complete the range, variety and multiplicity of subjects, emotions and abilities this poet is equipped to set down. The Fateful Apple is a powerful work presented by a woman who knows herself, and is satisfied with who she is, and sees no reason for apologizing for being herself. While I do not live her lifestyle, I admire anyone who faces life straight on, knows who and what they are, and march into the fact of life with eye wide open. Poet Thrash dedicates her book of poetry, The Fateful Apple, to her Mom. A finalist in the 2012 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize and the 2009 Arktoi Books Poetry Prize, Poet, Educator, Parent, Thrash received a MFA in fiction and poetry from American University, has completed a short story collection, and is working on a second poetry work. This work is not for everyone, some stark, even raw language, not profanity, but language having unembellished sexual suggestion, however, if you like hard hitting, no holds barred, tell it like it is, non-saccharine verses then The Fateful Apple will provide a powerful change of pace poetry read.
Happy to recommend.
$14.39 Title: The Fateful Apple Author: Venus Thrash Genre: Poetry Paperback: 78 pages Publisher: Urban poets & lyricists (March 9, 2014) Language: English ISBN-10: 0983535655 ISBN-13: 978-0983535652 Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.2 inches Reviewed by: molly martin
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