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-George Wallace, Writer in Residence, Walt Whitman Birthplace
In Café Crazy, Francine Witte serves up tough, street-smart narrators and injects them with an incurable sense of wit while exercising the imagination to its legal limits. The essence of Witte's work is sometimes dark, sometime playful, but always frighteningly addictive.
-Meg Pokrass, author of The Dog Looks Happy Upside Down
Francine Witte's Cafe Crazy serves up a series of singed epiphanies, the burn out of not one, but two marriages, their ashy remains. "Not all fires burn the same," the poet warns in the opening poem of this fine collection, and she's right-yet each betrayal burns, each ending leaves scars. This parallel journey of doomed relationships, the poet's and that of her parents', explores how love "gets lost inside somewhere while you're not paying attention." Witte's skill lies in her willingness to go deep, and to spare no one. She longs for love, "But love, like any bird, gets tired of flying and looks for a place to nest." These brave poems rise like the phoenix from the ashes. These are the poems that pull you through. These are the poems that save you.
-Alexis Rhone Fancher, author of Enter Here; poetry editor, Cultural Weekly
Author: Francine Witte
ISBN-10: 1947465325
ISBN-13: 9781947465329
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Language: English
Published: 12/20/2017
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.17d
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