Lisa Rhodes-Ryabchich

Gebundenes Buch

BREAKING OUT OF THE COCOON

Beschreibung

Not for the faint of heart, the poems in Breaking Out of the Cocoon tell the story of a family in crisis and a woman "tortured in mind, body and soul" who is pushed off an unthinkable edge. Through her poetic accounting of these distressing events, Ryabchich attempts to contain the tragedy hidden in the poet's signature and bones, eradicating it as "weeds pulled from the flower garden until it blooms no more." Like "twilight emerging from Heaven after a downpour-after everything seemed doomed to disaster," these poems take the reader on an emotional journey from the depths of suffering to an ultimate place of healing. -Claudine Nash, author of Beginner's Guide to Loss in the Multiverse and The Wild Essential "A child's frightened eyes tiptoe through darkness." I'm betting Anne Sexton would have liked that line and many more in this volume, just as she'd admire the carefully chosen verbs throughout-such as those used to spill the beans of the characters she allows us to meet-dozens of them, including: slanted, nestled, oozing, trashed, shunned, jabbed, and beaten. These poems will have a fine journey. -Dan Masterson, Poet Laureate of Rockland County An unworldly lady emptied of heartache had just a needle and a thread of optimism to suture her failing heart, Lisa takes us through the finespun yarn of self-destructive near adventure of injury and intimacy; of wanting badly to live; of needing to undo knotted arteries clotted in purpling sting. In these instructive poems, a nameless child running to 'evade injustice' is thrown into a whirlpooling kindergarten of daily filth, a blinding black hole where his ancestry knives through his feelings and forces him to find balance between reminiscences and scavenging through shadowy spaces-in search of hope at the mouth of a city glowing in orange sunrise, we unearth enchanting surprises in verse, a flutter finally finds its reason to wing through unchartered paths....Then there's the 'Crazy Bastard'! This collection suffices as an anecdotal mirror especially in these troubling times. -Shittu Fowora

Autor

Lisa Rhodes-Ryabchich is the proud single-mother of a special needs teenager and lives in Piermont, N.Y. She teaches poetry and screenwriting at Westchester Community College and has also taught a memoir, fiction, poetry writing class at Piermont Library and elsewhere. She performs her poetry throughout the United States and has two poetry chapbooks: We Are Beautiful Like Snowflakes (2016) and Opening the Black Ovule Gate (2018) both published with Finishing Line Press. Recently her first full-length poetry manuscript Peripeteia was published by Cyberwit.net and in 2021 another full-length poetry collection will be published entitled How You Get to There. Her poetry blog and performance schedule is: http://www.lisarhodesryabchichpoetryblog.wordpress.com. She has a MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, a B.A. in Communications from St. Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill, N.Y., a Computer Science Certificate in Business Applications from SUNY Purchase in Purchase, N.Y., a B.S. in Journalism from Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., a Television News Production Certificate from New York University in Manhattan, N.Y., and a B.A. in Speech Pathology and Audiology from Lehman College in the Bronx, N.Y. She was a recipient of a 2016 scholarship with Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She is a reader for Empire Great Jones Little Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Finishing Line Press
• Seitenzahl: 76
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 275g
• ISBN-13: 9781646626281
• ISBN-10: 1646626281
• Artikelnr.: 62821648