Madness And Retribution: Poems

by Juliette Torrez

Travel a picturesque and often harrowing road through these narrative poems to encounter the quiet survivors and overlooked places fallen through the cracks in the American Dream. Meet a battered wife wearing a celebratory dress to her husband's funeral ("The Red Dress") and a fed-up woman who shoots a complaining nonsmoker at Denny's ("Mother of Four"). With empathy for the human condition, Juliette Torrez captures the absurdity, hypocrisy, and ultimately the beauty of the places and people she has known.

Genres: Poetry

96 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2004

Reviews

[Aneesa]

These were meant to be spoken word.

[Casey Kiser]

Nothing in this book stood out to me. I found it rather boring for something with "madness" in the title.