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There is a Hell: A New Collection of Poetry
In this collection of new poems, I explore the theme of new beginnings. On the brink of a new decade, the poems deal with the resolution of old issues, transformed into hope for a fresh start. The poems combine the dark themes of populism, institutional oppression, and dysfunctional relationships, with the brighter themes of healing, self-discovery, positive self-worth, humor, and love. To express the theme of new beginnings, the poems are in different forms, including prose, verse, limerick, humorous sonnets, and haiku. It is the start of a new decade. 2020.
38 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 2, 2020
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June 24, 2020
It’s a good book of poems that you open up and find yourself reading straight through, and this was such a book for me, with lots of stops along the way for re-reading and for thinking and mulling over. There’s even a poem about Billy Bob Thornton, a particular favorite of mine, and a poem about one of my favorite recent movies, “Parasite”, which Annette Towler relates back to memories of her native England, just as I had related the movie to my own raffish family in Philadelphia and at the New Jersey shore. All the best movies are universal, as are all the best poems, like this one, which might have been written by a Japanese or Chinese poet five hundred years ago, but was written by an Englishwoman in Wisconsin in our present day:
Tucked inside the tree
Stripped of most of the brown leaves
A nest of new life
Tucked inside the tree
Stripped of most of the brown leaves
A nest of new life
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