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A Guide to Endangered Monsters
[From the NightBallet Press website:]
Mary Turzillo's A Guide to Endangered Monsters is packed with many of her award-winning and most-popular poems, everything from the deliciously salacious "We Made Poetry" to the devilishly hysterical "Aesthetics of Evil"...and including some of her haiku
Wandering teacup
Where has the mistress left it?
Ah. Wandering mind.
...and some of her science-fictional, apocalyptic pieces rendered in the way that only Turzillo can do it:
(stanzas excerpted from "This Is Just to Say")
This is just to say
I have eaten the hadrosaurs
that were grazing in the meadow
and which you were probably saving for further evolution.
Forgive me:
they were so tender and juicy
and also noisy;
they made my teeth itch.
This is just to say
I have blasted a crater
the size of Hyperion
in the Yucatan peninsula.
Forgive me:
it was so green and fertile
and it was in my way.
A Guide to Endangered Monsters contains 44 pages of 37 poems. The cover is a very pale green cardstock with a rich olive green cardstock insert. The text is printed on creamy soft white paper. The cover image, "Spiders from Mars," is an art piece by Ohio artist-poet Kevin Eberhardt.
Mary Turzillo's A Guide to Endangered Monsters is packed with many of her award-winning and most-popular poems, everything from the deliciously salacious "We Made Poetry" to the devilishly hysterical "Aesthetics of Evil"...and including some of her haiku
Wandering teacup
Where has the mistress left it?
Ah. Wandering mind.
...and some of her science-fictional, apocalyptic pieces rendered in the way that only Turzillo can do it:
(stanzas excerpted from "This Is Just to Say")
This is just to say
I have eaten the hadrosaurs
that were grazing in the meadow
and which you were probably saving for further evolution.
Forgive me:
they were so tender and juicy
and also noisy;
they made my teeth itch.
This is just to say
I have blasted a crater
the size of Hyperion
in the Yucatan peninsula.
Forgive me:
it was so green and fertile
and it was in my way.
A Guide to Endangered Monsters contains 44 pages of 37 poems. The cover is a very pale green cardstock with a rich olive green cardstock insert. The text is printed on creamy soft white paper. The cover image, "Spiders from Mars," is an art piece by Ohio artist-poet Kevin Eberhardt.
44 pages, Chapbook
Published August 18, 2015
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