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"This is the hole. I go there On Sundays. I go there after dinners
Before school --- mid work day After lunch with the boss Mondays
The hole has Hangover coal To paint my face to smudge In the acne,
rosacea, colloscum" "Alcoholic Betty, we know the story. She died.
Or did she? Through the "hours of penance" that is alcoholism and
its attendant chaos-math and aftermaths, recurrent false dawns and
falsetto damnations, Elisabeth Horan forges a descent/ascension
pendulum of fire poems that are not "a map to martyrdom" - but a
call to "go nuclear - Repose. Repose." Alcoholic Betty, we know the
story. She died. She died so she could live." - Miggy Angel, Poet,
Author and Performer "Horan pulls no punches with this incredibly
personal, raw, apologetic expose. This is writing from the very
base of the gut, which begins with the most difficult of
confessions, and ends with a reformed character "standing
unafraid." A very visceral, at times moving read, where the reader
shares the journey of an addict fighting their instincts and
reaching for something more." - Paul Robert Mullen, Poet
Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau and Elisabeth Horan live very different
lives on opposite sides of the world. Yet across the distance, they
found each other, and the deep and abiding friendship born of
shared trauma and a desire to feel truly seen is here, distilled
into these poems. Agarau's stunning photography weaves in and out
of the poems, with words and images speaking to each other about
love, loss, and what it means to find a friend who truly
understands you in the most unexpected of ways.
Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo were the two most influential
and respected women writers of twentieth-century Latin America.
Mistral, a plain, self-educated Chilean woman of the mountains who
was a poet, journalist, and educator, became Latin America's first
Nobel Laureate in 1945. Ocampo, a stunning Argentine woman of
wealth, wrote hundreds of essays and founded the first-rate
literary journal Sur. Though of very different backgrounds, their
deep commitment to what they felt was "their" America forged a
unique intellectual and emotional bond between them. This
collection of the previously unpublished correspondence between
Mistral and Ocampo reveals the private side of two very public
women. In these letters (as well as in essays that are included in
an appendix), we see what Mistral and Ocampo thought about each
other and about the intellectual and political atmosphere of their
time (including the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the
dictatorships of Latin America) and particularly how they
negotiated the complex issues of identity, nationality, and gender
within their wide-ranging cultural connections to both the Americas
and Europe.
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