One Mile North of Normal and Other Poems - Softcover

Kalahar, Jenny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1500801526 ISBN 13: 9781500801526

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

You are invited to visit Henrietta Hornsby’s Museum of Tragical Hairstyles, Bison World, a haunted bookshop and the mysterious Café Sotano. Take a few natural science lessons for the gullible and you’ll meet a baby vampire rat, a zombie rabbit, the blue-skinned moaning lilygator and a disco-loving chicken. The author interviews her dog, finds friends living in bowls, conjures up ancient relatives, sails through the center of the earth to see a wind beast’s collection of unusual antiques, and learns the secret to growing old. Here you’ll find a poem of wintering with bears, and on about the three little withdrawn pigs. Watch as a celluloid lover steps from the flipping film of a hundred-year-old Mutoscope projector. Learn how to replace your old, worn and wrinkled head with a new one in Plasto-rubberized Ecto-skin coating. Take a side-trip to the Island of Terrible Friends, to Bog Down and to the cartoon cat retirement home. Betty Boop, St. Nick and Rube Goldberg also make appearances in the author’s poems that all happily exist one mile north of normal.

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About the Author

Jenny Kalahar was born in the state of Washington and she and her four older brothers were raised in Grass Lake, Michigan. She married Patrick, a used and rare bookseller, and they had open bookshops in Michigan and Ohio until moving to live and work in an old Indiana schoolhouse. They now sell books online and Patrick restores and repairs the tattered and torn volumes sent to him from around the country. They are both members of Last Stanza Poetry Association. Jenny is the author of two novels in her Turning Pages series - Shelve Under C: A Tale of Used Books and Cats, and its sequel, The Find of a Lifetime: Another Tale of Used Books and Cats. Both are based on their experiences in Ohio where they fostered cats from the local shelter in their bookshop, finding new homes for more than fifty cats over the years. When not selling books or writing, Jenny avoids doing housework; plays her piano moderately well; reads; walks their terrier, Weegee; pets their cats; plays the bells and xylophone in a community band; and explores dusty flea markets and interesting antique shops.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1500801526
• ISBN 13: 9781500801526
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152