Circe, After Hours
Synopsis:
Circe, After Hours, is a collection of lyric poems with wide range,
covering love poems and family, blues and comedy, Jewish identity and Holocaust research.
Book Excerpt:
NO SALE
How would a Jewish girl
sell her soul to the devil?
Reformed don't believe
In Beezlebubba.
Now Robert Johnson, he
had no such trouble.
You know the tale, how the bluesman
sold his soul at the crossroads
for a lifetime of hot-lick guitar.
Shot by a jealous husband
at the roadhouse, he died on his knees
they say, drunk, barking like a dog.
Odd, for a nice Jewish girl
to fall on her knees.
Years though, that's how
it was. Me shot down,
baying at the moon
for a lick of you.
(from Circe, After Hours, BkMk Press, University of Missouri-Kansas City
User Reviews
- Circe, singing by cherylsnell3
Author Comment:
Selections from Circe as well as from my prior volumes of poetry will appear in PACKING LIGHT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, out from Black Widow Press, Boston, in 2009.
Topics/Categories:
Blues, Holocaust Studies, Judaism, love poetry, Poetry
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Publishers:
BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Awards:
Kansas City Star's :Top 100 Books for 2005.
Purchase From:
BkMk Press, University of Missouri-Kansas City
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Original Publish Date:
March 1, 2005
Formats and associated ISBNs:
1-886157-51-0
Reading Guides:
New Letters on the Air sells a CD of Marilyn Kallet discussing the book.
Publishing Notes:
Second Edition is available now.
Formats:
paperback
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