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By Lydia E. Ringwald July 10, 2022 ~ LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. ~ The 2022 Pageant of the Masters opened July 6 and continues throughout the summer until September 2 with living tableaux of artworks celebrating the theme 'Wonderful World.' Performances are nightly throughout the summer, with ticket prices starting at $30, which also… ....
Red Mountain Press, 2020 One Illuminated Letter of Being, Donald Platt’s new collection of thirty-two heart-wrenching poems, is oriented around the loss of his mother itself a disorienting experience, for anyone that anticipates her death, reconciles itself to it, and resumes living, in a new way. The collection is also a kind of reckoning with the work of late midlife (the speaker in all the poems, clearly Platt, is sixty-two): locating himself at this new, unfamiliar stretch of the road; dealing with wife Dana’s aging father (whom, like his mother, lives in another state); parenting adult children (one of whom is bipolar). Whereas in one poem (“Happy Day”) he and Dana “are making out, rutting like teenagers in heat / in the front seat,” in another (“Ocean’s Acid Reflux”) she wakes up “gagging on curried / chicken coming back up, harsh acids burning the back of her throat.” No matter how young we feel at a given moment, age catches up to everyone. ....
by Michael Quinn | Jan 31, 2021One Illuminated Letter of Beingby Donald PlattRed Mountain Press, 2020 One Illuminated Letter of Being, Donald Platt’s new collection of thirty-two heart-wrenching poems, is oriented around the loss of his mother itself a disorienting experience, for anyone that. by Michael Quinn | Jan 15, 2020 The Miracles by Amy Lemmon C&R Press, 2019. Amy Lemmon’s book of poems, The Miracles, is a meditation on life after loss, and its themes are motherhood, love, and aging. Lemmon writes, “The structure of the book was inspired by Leonard. Page 1 of 11 ....
by Michael Quinn | Jan 31, 2021One Illuminated Letter of Beingby Donald PlattRed Mountain Press, 2020 One Illuminated Letter of Being, Donald Platt’s new collection of thirty-two heart-wrenching poems, is oriented around the loss of his mother itself a disorienting experience, for anyone that. by Anne Graue | Jan 4, 2021Obitby Victoria ChangCopper Canyon Press, 2020 Victoria Chang’s collection, Obit, seems to have anticipated the prolonged good-byes of 2020. In it, Chang says good-bye to loved ones, feelings, objects everything we feel and know, who we were and where we’re. by Iris Jamahl Dunkle | Jan 3, 2021Asylum: A personal, historical, natural inquiry in 103 lyric sectionsby Jill BialoskyKnopf, 2020 This stunning book-length poem, broken up into 103 sections, examines the grief and trauma associated with losing a young sister from suicide. Threaded also through these. ....
Red Mountain Press, 2020 One Illuminated Letter of Being, Donald Platt’s new collection of thirty-two heart-wrenching poems, is oriented around the loss of his mother itself a disorienting experience, for anyone that anticipates her death, reconciles itself to it, and resumes living, in a new way. The collection is also a kind of reckoning with the work of late midlife (the speaker in all the poems, clearly Platt, is sixty-two): locating himself at this new, unfamiliar stretch of the road; dealing with wife Dana’s aging father (whom, like his mother, lives in another state); parenting adult children (one of whom is bipolar). Whereas in one poem (“Happy Day”) he and Dana “are making out, rutting like teenagers in heat / in the front seat,” in another (“Ocean’s Acid Reflux”) she wakes up “gagging on curried / chicken coming back up, harsh acids burning the back of her throat.” No matter how young we feel at a given moment, age catches up to everyone. ....