Isadora

by Dale Champlin

Isadora is a novel written in verse. A lonely old woman, calling herself “Old Shoe” reminisces about her childhood and past when her husband Harold was alive. These days, she’s nearly alone, save for her strung-out son, Jimmy, who infrequently floats in and out of her life.

Then an idea, a goldfish!

Soon she has a companion, G. Hawn (aka Isadora), living in a Pyrex bowl near the kitchen. Almost immediately an unexpected dialog develops between the Old Shoe and Isadora. But karma is a bitch when you’re a goldfish with a backstory and you still have all the longings and sensibilities of your former self.
—George Champlin

111 pages, Paperback

Published July 25, 2022

About the author

Dale Champlin, an Oregon poet with an MFA in fine art, has poems in The Opiate, Timberline Review, Pif, and elsewhere. She is the editor of /pãn| dé | mïk/ 2020: An Anthology of Pandemic Poems from the Oregon Poetry Association. Her first collection, The Barbie Diaries, was published in 2019 with Just a Lark Books. Callie Comes of Age was published by Cirque Press in 2021. Three collections, Leda, Isadora, and Andromina, A Stranger in America are forthcoming. Her sentient android, Andromina, protagonist of ninety-four poems, declares, “I wax magnetic as chunky biker jewelry, yet am susceptible to innuendo.”