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wayward
Shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award. A hotel maid is visited by the Holy Spirit, an ex child star finds temporary solace in a baby-dreaded rent boy, and an assortment of drifters, wastrels and lost girls seek transcendence and good times in the alternate universe that is Wayward. Part autobiographical exorcism, part analysis of the myth of the fallen woman, Wayward brings a haunting and unexpected perspective to being "on the road".
- GenresPoetry
95 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2003
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February 4, 2017
One of the best books I have ever read and re-read of any genre. Period. My only wish is that there were more of Riley's incandescent writing.
June 13, 2014
Awesome poems about life on the wrong side of the tracks, many lost girls, missing girls, dead girls. There's danger in all her poems and she captures the feeling of being young, the freedom of it, before you understand what's been done to you. From white trash haikus to sad life stories. My faves are "Aspects of the Drift," the opening piece, and "Joy," about Christmas. Worth seeking out.
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