A Penchant for Masquerades

Author:   Carolyn Martin
Publisher:   Unsolicited Press
ISBN:  

9781947021716


Pages:   132
Publication Date:   12 February 2019
Format:   Paperback
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From the universal to the personal, the formal to the experimental, Carolyn Martin's fourth poetry collection, A Penchant for Masquerades, takes an unflinching look at the fluidity of truth, time, identity, history, death, and relationships. Martin time-travels with Neanderthals, Lucy, and Big Foot to 9/11 to the future collapse of a holographic universe. She mines scientific discoveries, nursery rhymes, biblical characters, and the works of Issa, Horace, Yeats, Frost, Williams, Szymborska, and Collins in poems that are both playful and thought-provoking. Since she believes reincarnation is a distinct possibility, she suggests that death need not be taken too seriously ( Re-Entry Interview, A Case for Sudden Death ). She riffs on an Issa haiku ( Thoughts on a Translation ), sits down to dinner with Horace ( Notes from a Water Drinker ), and promises literary revenge on a reviewer who negatively critiques this collection ( To the Reviewer Who Missed Too Much ). Martin's forms run the gamut from sonnets, haiku, and pantoums to free verse, found poetry, and paratactic poems whose stanzas can be read in any order. A lover of language, she builds poems based on one word ( Phonaethetics, Disambiguation, Stirring ), and delights in re-stitching the words of others in surprising ways ( Variations on Final Words, 10 Variations on the 50 Most Quoted Lines of Poetry, 90+ Titles Appropriated from Poetry 180 Hosted by Billy Collins ). A lover of all things poetic, Martin has created an eclectic collection for readers who have a penchant for words and who are open to believing in everything and nothing.

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Author:   Carolyn Martin
Publisher:   Unsolicited Press
Imprint:   Unsolicited Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.204kg
ISBN:  

9781947021716


ISBN 10:   1947021710
Pages:   132
Publication Date:   12 February 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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From associate professor of English to management trainer to retiree, Carolyn Martin has journeyed from New Jersey to Oregon to discover Douglas firs, months of rain, and dry summers. Her poems and book reviews have appeared in publications throughout North America and the UK including Stirring, Naugatuck River Review, CALYX, The Curlew, and Antiphon. Her third collection, Thin Places, was released by Kelsay Books in 2017. She is currently the poetry editor of Kosmos Quarterly, journal for global transformation.

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