Since I have burdened myself with reading 125 books this year - which is a lot for me, but maybe not you - I am going to review some that I particularly like. Briefly, since I am not awesome at reviewing. This is more like review-aerobics for me. REVAEROBICS.
I found this book at the Book Seller, a book store in the Milwaukee Public Library.
Paperback
Published by: Ion Books
Number of pages: 98
Christina has so much color in these poems, and uses the comma a whole lot, which works lovely wonders. From the poem Kissing the Murderer,
My friends all tell me that the walls have wings,
that I could find a lover behind every door,
that the clubs, and the people, and the animals and stars
are all ready to adore me, are all ready to whistle
at my lips, body, figure, at my dancer's stance,
at my burning pet lamb,...
It is hypnotic to me. Rather like a golden thread pulled through my fingers and splitting off into other colors, and sometimes I don't know when I turned away from the main.
Common tropes: blood, faces, trees, stone.
I recommend this to lovers of the intense, fans of run-on sentences, and use of the first person narrative.
A mixture of darks & lights in a cold wash cycle. True stories and true stories posing as fiction. Hope they don't bleed together and then shrink.
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