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"Lynne Shapiro's Gala is a collection of poems that unfolds like a film. Spliced with flashbacks and asides, the poems move through myriad cultural and poetic registers-from Surrealist tropes to Hollywood movies to Greek mythology-showcasing a unique, feminist voice that echoes the collage aesthetic of the artworks themselves. Gala is an artist's coming-of-age story, and insists that a woman's voice, in all its wonder and indignation, shall not be erased. Gala is a 42-page chapbook, perfect bound, 5"" x 8"" with 8 color illustrations."

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From a woman's gaze and from a canvas to a still life, Shapiro offers us a way to see art in all of its layers, its playfulness, its integrity, its lack of integrity. She is so candid! Like Maggie Nelson, she delights in the asides and citations, allowing us context that expands our thinking. In the best of ways, she is a poet, a sociologist, and a Page 6 observer of 1980s art world shenanigans. What a pleasure to dive into GALA. -Lynne Sachs, experimental filmmaker, and author of Year by Year Poems (Tender Buttons Press) Surrealism is perhaps the purest expression of the dictum only connect. Surrealists associate umbrellas with lips and lizards, evoking the dreams that link the events of the objective world with our inner subjective world. Gala is a narrative of connections as it bounces off the many meanings of the word, gala, from the supermarket Gala apple to the museum gala that brought the poet together with David Salle, the painter, to Gala, Salvador Dali's wife, who was a muse to the surrealists. The poem works in the way a mind works, processing myths and images and combining them with specific memories to create a voice collage. As one poem notes, All Hell Breaks Loose When You Forget to Honor the Muse. This collection of poems demands honor for Gala and all the other muses who may have been forgotten. -Chris Bullard, author of Fear: Stories and Florida Man

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Lynne Shapiro's formally accomplished but playfully experimental poems have been published in more than 200 journals and magazines. Based in Hoboken, New Jersey, she has held arts residencies in a number of countries including Morocco, Lithuania, Spain, and the UK. Earlier in her career as a specialist in Dada and Surrealism, and interdisciplinary arts movements from between the Wars, she worked and taught at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New School, and the Parsons School of Design. Once an assistant to Susan Sontag, her time spent working at the Whitney Museum in the 1980s is the starting point for this suite of poems about muses, museums and the bad boys of the art world.

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