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  The Watts Towers Project

  Roger Guenveur Smith

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  Smith's edgy and funny The Watts Tower Project focuses on Simon Rodia, the Italian immigrant who spent 33 years building his towers - only to walk away from them, never to return.  Smith blends his own childhood, the life of Rodia, and L.A. history to create a wonderfully eclectic piece.An L.A. Theatre Works performance featuring Roger Guenveur Smith.
  (P)2007 L.A. Theater Works

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  Siarad - Poetry and Prose

  Caroline Reid

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  Award-winning writer and celebrated spoken-word performer Caroline Reid plumbs the depths of intimate human relationships in this bold and energetic collection of poetry and stories.  
  Siarad, a Welsh word meaning to talk or speak, is a 34-track audiobook that pushes the limits of the form. The work pulses with images of stars and stray dogs, highways with no horizon and mothers with fading memories. It’s a book of social and cultural commentary with poems about life and death and love. There are betrayal stories, surreal stories and lush stories that luxuriate in language, all with a consistent element of surprise.  
  Reid’s voice weaves in and out of an unconventional soundscape designed and produced by Jeffrey Zhang. The flow packs a punch. It’s an emotional roller coaster, which will make you laugh out loud and cry in the one sitting, and have you wanting to listen to it all over again. 
   Critic Reviews: 
   “Psychedelic. Startling. Alive. This book takes you to places you never imagined you’d go, and some places you’ve already been, but thought you were alone when you were there. Caroline Reid is a fellow traveller in a chaotic world. She tells a woman’s story, but it is the story of us all.” (Donna Ward, She I Dare Not Name: A Spinster’s Meditations on Life) 
  “The singing energy of Welsh literature is here grafted onto Australian colloquial informality and laid-back irony. The poems, prose poems and flash fictions in this collection demand to be read aloud to get the full effect.” (Kerryn Goldsworthy, Sydney Morning Herald) 
  “A great introduction to poetry and flash fiction for the uninitiated. Reid’s writing is satisfyingly complex, without being obscure, and relatable without being simplistic.” 
  (Tracey Korsten, Glam Adelaide) 
   

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  Luxury Blue Lace

  S. Brook Corfman

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  Often, the fact of being an individual can seem wildly at odds with the experience of containing multitudes. In Luxury, Blue Lace, S. Brook Corfman takes the reader through this complicated experience of selfhood and its multitudes, exploring the many overlapping identities a single person can contain. Corfman’s poems conjure a host of identities and selves both living and dead, gesturing towards the complex way memory and loss can inhabit us. Formed by experience, history, and the strictures of gender, the poems dwell on the challenges of fully knowing and understanding the diverse parts of a subject. While they seek out a full form for the individual, they also relish the complex multiplicity of the identities that arise through self-exploration and self-knowledge. Luxury, Blue Lace was the winner of the Autumn House Rising Writer Prize in 2018.

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  My Ariel

  Sina Queyras

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  A poem-by-poem engagement with Sylvia Plath's Ariel and the towering mythology surrounding it.
  When I am a bitch I feel in such good company.
  Nice girls never gave me anything but trouble,
  Eating the ground out from under me, then waving
  As I fall. Pity one has to die to see how liberating
  Bad can be. But what news had I of my own self?
  Words landed like razors, hours tinkled, suitors arrived.
  Listen, you'll think otherwise, but I tell you, betrayal
  Is your Get Out of Jail Free card. Take it,
  Don't look back. Of course you will. Look back.
  We always do, we who adore the muscle
  Of our cashmere cells, a cock that makes
  Our knees weak. Darlings, don't be sweet,
  Or serviceable. Don't accommodate,
  Write in blood or don't bother ...
  
  Where were you when you first read Ariel? Who were you? What has changed in your life? In the lives of women? In My Ariel, Sina Queyras barges into one of the iconic texts of the twentieth century, with her own family baggage in tow, exploring and exploding the cultural norms, forms, and procedures that frame and contain the lives of women.

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  My Lady April

  Ernest Dowson

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  Ernest Christopher Dowson  was an English poet, novelist, and short-story writer, often associated with the Decadent movement. - Summary by Wikipedia

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  Things I Would Like to Do with...

  Waylon H. Lewis

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  Things I Would Like to Do with You is about love. A love for a new generation. A love that includes room for independence, change, humor...even loneliness. Poetically searching through four seasons, this is a sweet book to curl up next to a fire and listen to.   
  About the author: Waylon Lewis likes to think he snowshoes hut-to-hut and builds nailless tiny houses in trees while drinking wild-crafted teas from herbs he has gathered in the woods beside his faithful half-hound, Redford. In reality, he founded Elephant Journal.    
  Excerpt from the book: 
  "Love is about finding one's match, which means we shall touch our minds and hearts together at once, and never condescend or aim for any goal between us but the truth."       
  "I do not want my idea of you. That is too easy, and it is not real. I want you, faults and all. And I want you to want me, faults and all, not any ideas you have about love."

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