Poetry and science fiction by teenaged poet and writer.
Poetry and science fiction by an award winning young poet and writer who died too soon. Described by her english teacher at Centennial High school as one of the best young writers he'd ever met, this collection is not what you'd expect from a high school student.
The work in this collection is diverse, intelligent, humorous and thoughtful. One of her short stories was awarded a Balticon Prize posthumously.
Excerpt
"and i wonder
how much
boiling down I must do
to reach
my own
sweet essence?"
Professional Reviews
From Barbara DeCesare;author Jigsaw Eyesore
"When I read her manuscript for the first time, I was unprepared for the concrete images: the sap from a tapped maple, the houses and butterflies and rooms she shows us. I didn't expect mature observations from someone so young. Robyn is engaged in the world through these poems. In the clever parody of Poe, in her imagined banter at a men's shelter, and other narrative poems, we fiind her examiniing, critiquing, exploring the world, the people in it, and her relationship to it. We find her taking on characters in persona poems where she molds her voice into those of husbands, wives, laborers and vagabonds. she rists the common urge of young writers to shut out the world and look only inward for voice..."
Contraband Marriage, traveling along the hemline of loving after incarceration, is a love story written in lyric and free form, set in reality with a different ever after.
