Waspfish

Rojas, Val Dering

ISBN 10: 1941783228 / ISBN 13: 9781941783221

Published by Glass Lyre Press, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Waspfish
• Publisher: Glass Lyre Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1941783228
• ISBN 13: 9781941783221
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

"Val Dering Rojas is a poet of the elements, as if earth, fire, air, water and aether were contained in her quill. 'There is no science/which knows my fear/of how the land will love us, ' she says, intimating that a true, natural, mysterious force is at work, which may very well be found in her ability to limn the ineffable with poetry. Rojas' poems vary widely even in this small collection--prose poem, surrealist dream, Ferlinghetti­like line breaks--no form seems beyond her. Her titles alone suggest a map for the questing soul: "Awake," "Loss," "How to Leave the World." These are powerful, musical evocations of modern life, written with blood and daring and a gimlet eye."

--Corey Mesler, author of Opaque Melodies that Would Bug Most People

About the Author

Val Dering Rojas is a Los Angeles based poet and artist who has also studied Addiction and Recovery Counseling and Psychology. She is the author of the chapbook TEN (Dancing Girl Press, 2014) and a Pushcart nominee. Val believes water is what keeps her in coastal Los Angeles, as she is attracted to water of many kinds: bathwater, pool water, ocean water and tears. When not writing, Val enjoys busking poems at the beaches of Venice, CA.