A finalist for the Donald Justice Prize, Jennifer Reeser's third
volume ranges from the light and amusing to the weighted and
anguished. Twenty-seven of the poems in this collection present a
tragicomic dialogue with William Shakespeare, through the persona
of the Dark Lady addressed in his latter sonnets. Over seventy
others present portraits-in-poetry of shops, performers and vendors
in the famous French Quarter of New Orleans: candelabras, Carnival
and cockroaches; the catastrophic events of the Louisiana
hurricanes of 2005, and that state's ensuing environmental disaster
in the Gulf of Mexico. By diverse styles and forms, from the ghazal
and villanelle to sapphics to sonnets to the limerick, in blank
verse and rhyme, in modes lyric, narrative and dramatic, the author
communicates on love, faith, family, psychology, fashion, art and
the forces of Nature; and not through her poems alone, but also
through those of the French symbolist Charles Baudelaire, whose
translations she offers in English form similar to those French
versions in which they were first composed. This collection
includes poems and translations previously published in such
magazines and journals as The National Review, POETRY, LIGHT: A
Quarterly of Light Verse, Chronicles: A Magazine of American
Culture, First Things, The Dark Horse, Unsplendid, Mezzo Cammin,
American Arts Quarterly, Able Muse and MEASURE. It contains, as
well, numerous nominees for the Pushcart and Best of the Net prize
anthologies, with a foreword written by Australian editor, Paul
Stevens, and with recommendations from National Review literary
editor, Michael Potemra; Yale Scholar of the House in Poetry and
author of Mortal Stakes / Faint Thunder, Timothy Murphy; and
TRINACRIA editor, New York University professor, Dr. Joseph S.
Salemi.
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