Description:
Gloria Monaghan's poems, with their essentially straightforward, eminently readable language, also explode with surprises-a sly wit, a sprinkling of deliciously unusual verbiage ("oaknut," "cupule," "plumule"-all in the same poem!), and a wealth of startlingly touching details (the book opens with a little hand-grenade of a poem about a tiny opera bag that "Couldn't have held much more/than a few coins for tipping a bathroom attendant/or purchasing milk"). This whole book bursts with a rare freshness to be applauded and savored.
-Lloyd Schwartz, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of Who's on First? New and Selected Poems
Brief description: Gloria Monaghan is a Professor at Wentworth University in Boston at the School of Science and Humanities. This is her seventh poetry collection. Others include, Cormorant on the Strand (Lily Poetry Review, 2023), Hydrangea (Kelsay Books, 2020) False Spring (Adelaide Books, 2019), Torero (Nixes Mate, 2019), and The Garden (Flutter Press, 2) and Flawed (Finishing Line Press, 2011). Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart, Griffin and Mass Center for The Book Prizes. Her film, Daughter of Rubens, was selected by the 25th annual Provincetown Film Festival.