Moon Landing Day - Alissa Sammarco

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Résumé :
With cinematic imagery, Alissa Sammarco reveals the difficult truths of a young woman's life, and of the harm that is passed from one generation to the next with the words they swallow/the words they spit out. But even as the doomed and self-destructive lovers in these poems inevitably walk old paths in old shoes as did their parents before them, the poet is making new paths with the unflinching honesty of her remembering. -Pauletta Hansel, author of Heartbreak Tree...

Biographie:
Cincinnati Poet Laureate Emeritus In Moon Landing Day, poet Alissa Sammarco navigates trajectories of relationships blasted off course by miscalculation, unmet expectations, abuse, and addiction. It is a painful journey where forgiveness comes like black cassocks /that sway in windy prayer. Where even confessions mask their true shape and size when they tumble like river rocks/until smooth and round,/lying just below the water. The chapbook's rich music and stark imagery drape the struggle to live a meaningful life in epic clothing. Krakens appear on the horizon, daughters blow kisses from the bluffs, while some poems allude to mythic battles on a dark plain. One poem, I am the Thin Blue Line describes addiction as a total loss of control in these words, As I reached an apex, the rockets exploded,/crashing into the sea./My separation complete. Moon Landing Day flickers with the spark of emergent self-knowledge that ultimately burns toward strength. -Roberta Schultz, Singer, Songwriter, Poet...

Sommaire:
With cinematic imagery, Alissa Sammarco reveals the difficult truths of a young woman's life, and of the harm that is passed from one generation to the next with the words they swallow/the words they spit out. But even as the doomed and self-destructive lovers in these poems inevitably walk old paths in old shoes as did their parents before them, the poet is making new paths with the unflinching honesty of her remembering. -Pauletta Hansel, author of Heartbreak Tree...