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Dialect of Dahlias
Gloria Wimberley's debut volume of poetry, Dialect of Dahlias, is artistically off-the-beaten path at inky indigo of twilight (where fairies tiptoe and satyrs skip) deep in the ethereal, sylvan recesses of our psyche, a creative forest unto itself. Via her versifying, moonlight can be pure and cleansing, or as painfully incriminating as a brand on flesh. Both the nocturnal and diurnal rhythms of Life are explored in her 3 distinct poetic narrative, surrealistic, and blended--Pick a "Lily" or embrace a "Leper" in her fanciful forest. Serious readers of 21st century poetry will discover that the various personas speaking in Dialect of Dahlias are assuredly magical, mesmerizing, and meaningful.
102 pages, Paperback
First published March 10, 2012
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Gloria Wimberley
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Writing and Teaching are my passions, as is Reading. My 102-page off-the-beaten path book of poetry ***************************** Dialect of Dahlias ******************************
reached the Top 10 of the Poetry/Women Authors--Paperback category on Amazon (May, June, July, August 2012). Occasionally it floated to #1 and hovered there for weeks at a time. The most memorable times--my humble tome was miraculously(!!)#1 above Caroline Kennedy's book, She Walks in Beauty, and another time my book was #1 above Maya Angelou's Heart of a Woman...and yes, I prize the screenshots to preserve these once-in-a-lifetime memories. ~Dialect of Dahlias~ was published by the dynamic small press Edgar & Lenore's Publishing House of Los Angeles. Talented author Apryl Skies is the Executive Editor and talented author Alicia Winski is the Co-Editor of Edgar & Lenore's Publishing House. Loving the serenity of Appalachia, I now live in northern West Virginia--near Pittsburgh,PA--(after living 20 years in Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and Washington, DC) with my husband, two children, and our pet dog who resembles a "golden wolf."
Writing and Teaching are my passions, as is Reading. My 102-page off-the-beaten path book of poetry ***************************** Dialect of Dahlias ******************************
reached the Top 10 of the Poetry/Women Authors--Paperback category on Amazon (May, June, July, August 2012). Occasionally it floated to #1 and hovered there for weeks at a time. The most memorable times--my humble tome was miraculously(!!)#1 above Caroline Kennedy's book, She Walks in Beauty, and another time my book was #1 above Maya Angelou's Heart of a Woman...and yes, I prize the screenshots to preserve these once-in-a-lifetime memories. ~Dialect of Dahlias~ was published by the dynamic small press Edgar & Lenore's Publishing House of Los Angeles. Talented author Apryl Skies is the Executive Editor and talented author Alicia Winski is the Co-Editor of Edgar & Lenore's Publishing House. Loving the serenity of Appalachia, I now live in northern West Virginia--near Pittsburgh,PA--(after living 20 years in Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and Washington, DC) with my husband, two children, and our pet dog who resembles a "golden wolf."
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April 29, 2012
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For author Gloria Wimberley, Life is...a variety, a variety of Lilies and Lepers, but there is certainly a middle ground, a poetic forest; intriguing, daunting and delicious. Of course this also means Life is far from a nightmare, because as always, some darker aspects of Life require an open perspective, sublime sensitivity and divine understanding. Gloria Wimberley leaves her craft extremely tuned in to this often overlooked paradox.
The first chapter entitled, Lilies, highlights "Manatee & Monet" in which Wimberley paints a "Monet landscape" exploring marri(age). Using abstract imagery and lush metaphor she creates a dreamy, honest and heartfelt portrait of male-female intimacy & interaction. In "Manatee & Monet" there is an impressive blend of familiarity and surreal storytelling; a rare mix of symbolism & refreshingly relatable material.
Gloria's work is quite like being in a thick crowd (perhaps a cloud), unexpectedly brushed by a satin glove in passing or our very Being; scarred by a fireplace poker in the midst of a snowstorm. It is deep in the red zone of what we wish for and that which we fear...only somehow more decadent...more volcanic. Carbon immaculate.
Dialect of Dahlias is sensual, surreal and searing. The poems within will inspire and incinerate the core of readers' intellect, bend the English language and tease the depths of the psyche.
From Lepers, "Cotillion Eye Glinting Down" is submerged somewhere in-between the salt and silt of consciousness. This is where author Wimberley extracts her muse best, where her diving bell submerges true lovers of poetry. It is her dark path which illuminates the glow of her versatility, awakens the reader to the writer's lucid dream.
There is a tall vase in the corridor full of dahlias and the coroner has a new voicemail...but not because "Poetry is dead" this poem itself serves to prove that the nature of that theory is a myth, legend and a dead note.
True lovers of literature will find "Dialect of Dahlias" more intoxicating with each read.
For author Gloria Wimberley, Life is...a variety, a variety of Lilies and Lepers, but there is certainly a middle ground, a poetic forest; intriguing, daunting and delicious. Of course this also means Life is far from a nightmare, because as always, some darker aspects of Life require an open perspective, sublime sensitivity and divine understanding. Gloria Wimberley leaves her craft extremely tuned in to this often overlooked paradox.
The first chapter entitled, Lilies, highlights "Manatee & Monet" in which Wimberley paints a "Monet landscape" exploring marri(age). Using abstract imagery and lush metaphor she creates a dreamy, honest and heartfelt portrait of male-female intimacy & interaction. In "Manatee & Monet" there is an impressive blend of familiarity and surreal storytelling; a rare mix of symbolism & refreshingly relatable material.
Gloria's work is quite like being in a thick crowd (perhaps a cloud), unexpectedly brushed by a satin glove in passing or our very Being; scarred by a fireplace poker in the midst of a snowstorm. It is deep in the red zone of what we wish for and that which we fear...only somehow more decadent...more volcanic. Carbon immaculate.
Dialect of Dahlias is sensual, surreal and searing. The poems within will inspire and incinerate the core of readers' intellect, bend the English language and tease the depths of the psyche.
From Lepers, "Cotillion Eye Glinting Down" is submerged somewhere in-between the salt and silt of consciousness. This is where author Wimberley extracts her muse best, where her diving bell submerges true lovers of poetry. It is her dark path which illuminates the glow of her versatility, awakens the reader to the writer's lucid dream.
There is a tall vase in the corridor full of dahlias and the coroner has a new voicemail...but not because "Poetry is dead" this poem itself serves to prove that the nature of that theory is a myth, legend and a dead note.
True lovers of literature will find "Dialect of Dahlias" more intoxicating with each read.
June 5, 2012
Dialect of Dahlias is abundant garden teeming with sights and scents and predilections the reader doesn't know he possesses. At one turn Gloria Wimberley sets a Monet landscape before the eye; the next a fossilized Mother Earth; next a Crayola easel. Refashioned reality resides in the pages of this expressive collection. –Wanda Morrow Clevenger, author of This Same Small Town in Each of Us
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