Paperback. Susan Montez.makes poetry from lived and spoken language. She isn't for librarians, pastoralists, or conservatives of any persuasion--unless they burst with a secret, unexpressed, snazzy character that is as much costumed as revealed.-- The Southern Review Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Radio Free Queens: Poems (Paperback)
Publisher: George Braziller
Publication Date: 1994
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0807613452
ISBN 13: 9780807613450
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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"These poems seem broadcast--not to a European war zone behind an iron curtain of Communism but to a danger zone in Queens, New York, behind a dingy lace curtain of chronic yearning for the right job, the right man, the right address, the right life."―Booklist

"Susan Montez...makes poetry from lived and spoken language. She isn't for librarians, pastoralists, or conservatives of any persuasion―unless they burst with a secret, unexpressed, snazzy character that is as much costumed as revealed."―The Southern Review

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These poems seem broadcast--not to a European war zone behind an iron curtain of Communism but to a danger zone in Queens, New York, behind a dingy lace curtain of chronic yearning for the right job, the right man, the right address, the right life. Montez crosses borders and boundaries both national and emotional, chronicling a world of subway snipers, the .357 Magnum her father gave her for protection, and the divorced homicide detective-poet with a good pension and major medical insurance who, unfortunately, drinks too much and, sadly, turns out to be just another drunk with a gun. "Danger's everywhere," she concludes. She limns the lives of working-class women fighting to be free in personal and political war zones in which "the clocks are set ahead so dusk never falls before midnight." Whitney Scott

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