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Flashlight
Poetry. "In FLASHLIGHT, Laura Boss proves she is an audacious poet. She succeeds in writing risk-taking poems that are full of ironic and wry humor. The poems speak with the self-deprecating, down to earth voice of a sensual woman. This is a poet whose increasingly sure hand guides her to handle her explosive material with the deftness of a high wire artist. I love this book. I love these poems. I know that anyone who starts to read FLASHLIGHT will not be able to put it down. What energy, what effervescence, what a tour de force! Anyone who thinks poetry can't save your life should read this book."—Maria Mazziotti Gillan
80 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2010
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About the author
Laura Boss
22 books8 followersLaura Boss is an American award-winning poet. She was a first prize winner in Poetry Society of America’s Gordon Barber Poetry Contest. Laura was the sole representative of the United States at the XXVI Annual International Struga Poetry Readings in Yugoslavia. Awards for her writing also include an American Literary Translators Award (funded through the National Endowment for the Arts), and three Fellowships in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She received the first International Poetry Award at the International Poetry Festival at Swansea, Wales (sponsored by Cross-Cultural Communications and Seventh Quarry Magazine of Wales).
Her collections of poetry include Stripping (Chantry Press, 1982) the award-winning On the Edge of the Hudson (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1986). Her book, Reports from the Front (CCC, 1995) was nominated for an American Book Award. Arms: New and Selected Work was published by Guernica Editions in 1999. Flashlight, also published by Guernica, is her most recent collection.
Her poetry has appeared in The New York Times and in the anthology The Poets of New Jersey: From Colonial to Contemporary (Jersey Shore Publications). In 1998, her manuscript was a finalist in the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award.
Laura is the founder and Editor of Lips poetry magazine.
She has given readings at the United Nations, the Dodge Poetry Festival, Princeton University, the New York Public Library, the Women’s Spirituality Festival and numerous other venues.
A long time Dodge Poet, Laura has led sessions for many years in their “Spring & Fountain” program for teachers.
In 2014, Laura co-edited with John Gallaher, Time Is a Toy: Selected Poems of Michael Benedikt (University of Akron).
Her collections of poetry include Stripping (Chantry Press, 1982) the award-winning On the Edge of the Hudson (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1986). Her book, Reports from the Front (CCC, 1995) was nominated for an American Book Award. Arms: New and Selected Work was published by Guernica Editions in 1999. Flashlight, also published by Guernica, is her most recent collection.
Her poetry has appeared in The New York Times and in the anthology The Poets of New Jersey: From Colonial to Contemporary (Jersey Shore Publications). In 1998, her manuscript was a finalist in the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award.
Laura is the founder and Editor of Lips poetry magazine.
She has given readings at the United Nations, the Dodge Poetry Festival, Princeton University, the New York Public Library, the Women’s Spirituality Festival and numerous other venues.
A long time Dodge Poet, Laura has led sessions for many years in their “Spring & Fountain” program for teachers.
In 2014, Laura co-edited with John Gallaher, Time Is a Toy: Selected Poems of Michael Benedikt (University of Akron).
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