Bøger af Eloise Healy

¿Between little corner taquerias/ and Thai home cooking joints,¿ Eloise Klein Healy renders a post-modern Los Angeles, weaving elegies, lyrics and meditations into a provocative assemblage. She anchors the book with poems exploring gender identity and social relations, meditating on the Civil Rights movement (¿our unnatural disaster over race¿), the scourges of breast cancer and AIDS. She elegizes sister-poet Lynda Hull and honors the ¿oldest human assignment¿¿burying a parent. Read this collection for its wisdom, rage, and wry wit, for Healy¿s intelligent probing into contemporary culture.¿Robin Becker, author of The Horse Fair

In May of 2004, a wildfire swept through the Temecula Valley in Southern California, destroying in its path Dorland Mountain Colony, the place where the poems in Ordinary Wisdom were written. Dorland was unique among artists¿ retreats in an electronic age in that there was no electricity or phones in the cabins. Adjusting to the rhythms of light and darkness was the first task in settling in to work. It was the perfect setting for a project that meant to deal with daily life¿its most ordinary manifestations and its most significant messages.