When the Body Says It's Leaving - Softcover

Pansy Maurer-Alvarez

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931236313 ISBN 13: 9781931236317

Publisher: Hanging Loose Press, 2004

Synopsis

Poetry. Pansy Maurer-Alvarez won acclaim for her first poetry collection, DOLORES: THE ALPINE YEARS (Hanging Loose Press, 1996; available through SPD), written in the persona of an adventurous dental hygenist. Alice Notley called it a "real pleasure" and Ed Friedman termed it "breathtakingly inviting." In this new book, she sounds a very different note, with each poem subtly growing out of some element in the previous one to form a continuous but varied song. "Pansy Maurer-Alvarez is beautifully tuned in to her self and it's an interesting self, able to translate all the seen and unseen promptings of the day into colorful, sometimes surreal, imagery and musical lines, making this a rich book, a book of hours from those lucky enough to obtain it"--Harvey Shapiro.

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Review:

"Her content matches, almost perfectly, her rhythms and word choices; plus she's envisioning the World in her poetry and not just a backyard scene...."

About this edition

• Publisher: Hanging Loose Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1931236313
• ISBN 13: 9781931236317
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 81