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The Legacy of the Sidelong Glance: Elegies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780692338315)
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xThe haunting prose poems of Michelle Reale's The Legacy of the Sidelong Glance form a rare and intimate portrait of a complex, resilient, and essentially powerful woman betrayed by the politics of family and culture. Burned free of sentimentality, this collection pushes against the mindless stereotypes that stunt the mainstream image of Italian American women, and instead offers a fresh, honest portrayal of a life forged by oppression and survival.
-Olivia Kate Cerrone, Italian-American novelist; recipient of Distinguished Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts
Michelle Reale does not write with a pen, but with a crochet needle. Her words create a quilt laced with blood. The past is haunting, but there is no shame in excavating it for us to behold. All that is Italian swells with retrograde taste and melodramatic feel. The cadavers of yesteryear rise as Lazarus while Reale skillfully and painfully unearths her heavy legacy. These poems shine as polished fossils.
-Alessandra Bava, author of Guerilla Blues, Edizioni Ensemble, 2012
Reale sweeps us up into the velocity of her headlong wind tunnel. In her prose poems we encounter striking images as truths spinning around us. We are taken in so close to the place where legacy and myth meet, but we never quite land. We breathe in her vortex. We lose sight of any sharp triangular edges, as the beginning and end points swirl away and we spiral among words.
-Sonia Elisabetta di Placido, author of Exaltation in Cadmium Red, Guernica Editions
Author: Michelle Reale
ISBN-10: 0692338314
ISBN-13: 9780692338315
Publisher: Aldrich Press
Language: English
Published: 12/02/2014
Pages: 36
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.14lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.07d
-Olivia Kate Cerrone, Italian-American novelist; recipient of Distinguished Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts
Michelle Reale does not write with a pen, but with a crochet needle. Her words create a quilt laced with blood. The past is haunting, but there is no shame in excavating it for us to behold. All that is Italian swells with retrograde taste and melodramatic feel. The cadavers of yesteryear rise as Lazarus while Reale skillfully and painfully unearths her heavy legacy. These poems shine as polished fossils.
-Alessandra Bava, author of Guerilla Blues, Edizioni Ensemble, 2012
Reale sweeps us up into the velocity of her headlong wind tunnel. In her prose poems we encounter striking images as truths spinning around us. We are taken in so close to the place where legacy and myth meet, but we never quite land. We breathe in her vortex. We lose sight of any sharp triangular edges, as the beginning and end points swirl away and we spiral among words.
-Sonia Elisabetta di Placido, author of Exaltation in Cadmium Red, Guernica Editions
Author: Michelle Reale
ISBN-10: 0692338314
ISBN-13: 9780692338315
Publisher: Aldrich Press
Language: English
Published: 12/02/2014
Pages: 36
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.14lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.07d
By Michelle Reale
xMichelle Reale is an Assistant Professor at Arcadia University in the suburbs of Philadelphia. She is the author of four collections of prose poems and fiction. Her work has been anthologized and her poetry has been published in over 100 publications online and in print and has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has recently won the Twin Antlers Prize for poetry, along with poets Meg Tuite and Heather Fowler. The winning manuscript, "Bare Bulbs Swinging" will be published by Artistically Declined Press in the 2014. In addition, she conducts ethnography among African refugees in Sicily and blogs about her experience at www.sempresicilia.wordpress.com
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