Discount Fireworks

by Wendy Taylor Carlisle

Winner of the 2008 Bernice Blackgrove Award. In Discount Fireworks, Wendy Taylor Carlisle has trained her laser eye on the facts of our lives from a fifties childhood to the exploding contemporary world. From Adam and Eve to the melting glaciers to life in the Andromeda Galaxy, no topic is off-limits. Written with a bow toward the formal elements, FYI there are sonnets here, Discount Fireworks' hallmark is plain speaking. Prepare to be entertained and amazed by its out-of-the world world.

80 pages, Perfect Paperback

Published May 30, 2008

About the author

Wendy Taylor Carlisle is an Arkansan who has lived for the last twenty years in Texas. She is the author of Discount Fireworks (Jacaranda Press, 2008) and Reading Berryman to the Dog (Jacaranda Press, 2000). Among the anthologies that include her work are Affirming Flame: Writings By Progressive Texas Poets in the Aftermath of September 11th, (ed. Jennifer Margulies with The Poets Grimm, Storyline Press, 2003), Is This Forever, Or What?: Poems and Paintings from Texas (ed. Naomi Shihab Nye, HarperCollins Children's Books, 2004) and Letters to the World (ed. Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace, and Lesley Wheeler, Red Hen Press, 2007). Her chapbook, After Happily Ever After, was published as #15 in the 2River Chapbook Series. Her poems have appeared on line at Fringe Magazine, Ghoti Magazine, Salt River Review, 2River View, The Arkansas Literary Forum, Unlikely Stories, StorySouth and others and in print in CiderPress Review, Cardinalis, Windhover, Borderlands, Ekphrasis and others. She has won The Bernice Blackgrove Award for Excellence, The Lipscomb Award from Centenary College, a Passager Poetry Contest Award, and has been five times nominated for a Pushcart Prize and twice for Best of the Web.