Category: Poetry Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Pages: 24
Copyright: 2005
A chapbook of poetry that will strike chords--both major and minor--with women of all ages.
From the Acknowledgements:
Poetry is such a personal thing that every poem, every line, could be attributed to the blending of one life--past or present-- with another. I thank all those lives who have touched mine, even the ones who brought sadness, envy, anger, and illness to my door for those are the ones from whom I learned the most, gleaned the greatest lessons.
Love and thanks go to family, friends and teachers:
Excerpt
"An ancient
with no teeth pumps my gas,
puts me on the road
to Birmingham without a map
because, I’m sure,
he cannot read, his voice
a song finer than Foster
or B’rer Rabbit fables
read to me by mother
who never thought I’d see
a black man or the night sky
as Hapshutset saw it...
Professional Reviews
Endorsement/Blurb
Filled with brilliant imagery, Howard Johnson's poems have the power to make her readers see what she sees and feel what she feels. This is a rare gift.
Judith Colombo, Author
and Reviewer for The Weekly
Gleaner. and the The Daily
Gleaner
First Edition Translation of Teselas by Carmen Crespo X111 César Simón Poetry Prixe 2016 Translated from Spanish by Robin Ouzman Hislop and Amparo Arrospíde
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
Using Calgary as a backdrop the author satirizes the self-serving nature of the public as it continues to fatten itself, not only physically, but egotistically as well.
