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Now I write poems to be read aloud but these are page poems. Interior, twisty, bad puns, surreal imagery—James Tate meets the Florida WPA guide. For the cover art, I chose a terrific British artist who works in pencil, Laurie Lipton. I learned about her from an essay Janet Burroway published in New Letters. (Laurie Lipton’s work is on the cover of Janet Burroway’s wonderful collection of essays, Embalming Mom.) My two favorite poems from the collection are “Being from Orlando” (which has been used in classrooms as a writing prompt—if your students try it, I’d love to see their results) and “Polar.”
Reviews
"If you love poetry you can see, smell, taste, hear, and feel, then you will love this collection." ~ Barbara Hamby
"Be careful. These poems can be wonderfully dangerous: jumpy, radiant." ~ Marianne Boruch
"Heather Sellers’ poems make accounts that undo themselves; they alternate a smooth, confident syntax with lurching, skidding rhythms to make dark and funny models of the ‘unacceptable’ cultures within cultures of American life…. Her free verse line argues with its freedoms, a jaggedness as agitated as a coast line that is loved and feared." ~ Brenda Hillman; Judge, Sawtooth Poetry Prize
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