Catbird - Alfaro, Barbara

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Résumé :
This beautiful collection illuminates the poet's journey from girlhood to widowhood. Still, Papa, somehow you conveyed to me/quiet is where you go to get soul things out she writes in Tough Guy, a childhood memory poem. In Catbird, the title poem of the book, humor interrupts grieving...I loved her once/when I saw her lipstick hidden under the pillow./Like Marlene Dietrich in Dishonored,/applying lipstick before the firing squad,/no pale mouth would greet eternity./Barbara Alfaro's poems have appeared in various journals including The Blue Mountain Review, Variant Literature and Poet Lore. ?

Biographie:
BARBARA ALFARO is the recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Playwriting and two Jenny McKean Moore writing scholarships at The George Washington University. Mirror Talk, her memoir won the IndieReader Discovery Award for Best Memoir. Her poems have appeared in various journals including Poet Lore, The Blue Mountain Review and Glassworks.