Journey In Flagrante

ISBN: 1933769483

Author: Cherin, Patricia

Condition: New

This book selects and organizes a lifetime of poetry by noted poet Patricia Cherin, of the Long Beach school of poetry. Poems include:Interior balloon To keep the spirits up I inflate myself at breakfast wheeling in the helium tank with the morning paper I blow myself up to speak on register breathing within breath purposeful pants little mantras willing cells to carry on all day I chase the red balloon inside me dear scarlet orb slowly leaking Dante's woods I've been walking in Dante's dark woods lately they are Hester Prynne's woods too and Red Riding Hood's the tall trees make the going through the seeing ahead or around or even behind difficult the foliate heaven is immediate and obscurant and presses down as the verdant mulchy floor bears up it is not however claustrophobic but oddly comforting if not exactly liberatory it is wonderfully and historically rich with precedent, dearly familiar