Exit Pursued by a Bear and Others (Paperback)

Paperback. "Exit Pursued by a Bear is original and delightful, a remarkable debut." - Daisy Fried, author of My Brother is Getting Arrested Again "A Dairy Queen converted into a funeral parlor, a famous stage direction from Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, the sands of Afghanistan . everything is grist for Ginny Beards' clever mill. Full of humor, learning, and dark insight, she wears her erudition lightly, as all the best poets do." - Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down In the poems of Virginia Beards, insomnia is a 3-ring circus, a Dairy Queen mutates into a funeral parlor, an 18th century graffito enlivens a bedpost in a Venetian palazzo, a swim in the Nile both lulls and terrifies. What she sees both directly and via a sideways glance, the inanities of the overheard as well as of the zeitgeist, and the stresses of domestic relationships are some of her themes in Exit Pursued by a Bear. Whatever the focus, she is committed to the pleasures of language and to multum in parvo, much in a small space. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…