 Money for Sunsets
Elizabeth J. Colen
Poetry $12.00
Praise for Money for Sunsets
"To read the poems of Elizabeth Colen is to walk the streets of a familiar town with a knife hidden against your skin, tucked tight in the waistband of your favorite jeans. Danger haunts these poems, from the 'box of hair on a beach' in the very first line. Yet it is a seductive danger, and one fortified with brillant, lucid images. Cinematic and compassionate, sexy and heartbreaking, this is a debut collection that will thrill you with the sound of your own pulse." -- Mary Biddinger, author of Prairie Fever and Saint Monica
"Here are poems that speak many minds with a single voice. And most striking are those that express the living experience -- more completely than any poems I know -- of the long adolescent years of uncertainty-as-being. Elizabeth Colen's ability to write from, rather than about, those years again and again results in a gift given to the reader, a kindness, even as she explores the at times fraught assumption(s) of sexual identity. As she herself writes, 'Great untapped mercies live within us.'" -- Shane McCrae, author of Mule
Protean like dreams, jittery montages of the quotidian-turned-nightmare, Elizabeth J. Colen's lyrical prose poems in Money for Sunsets shed a steady gaze on our present moment, and X-ray like, expose the arthritic and bent bones of our future. This is a fierce and fearless book that reaches toward us with a sturdy and knowing sense of compassion, bearing ample evidence of the intelligence and artistry that led the poet to her revealing and mindful vision(s)." -- Khaled Mattawa, author Tocqueville and Ismailia Eclipse
Elizabeth J. Colen lives in the Pacific Northwest. This is her first book.
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