ISBN: 0-88739-288-1
80 pp.
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Pub Date: 4/2000
Paperback Original
Price: $15.00
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Hunchback, The
Sandy Diamond
Sandy Diamond's poems tell stories of sweetness, sorrow and fury. Graceful, truthful, painful, they are love letters to her readers. Listen to her words-full of sex and flutter. They whisper, they sing. They attack us-they caress our very hearts.
In this second book of poems, The Hunchback, Ms. Diamond offers the power, compassion and grace of the best poets of this generation-or any generation. Her brilliant command of her craft, word by word, prayers, songs, histories-gleam and glow.
Review: "Sandy Diamond's second book of poetry takes you deep into the heart of a true-life hunchback. She is a warrior of a poet, and her words, at once gentle, painful, funny and ferociously honest, scream to be read out loud, to be sung, to be heard. If there is one poet you should be listening to in America today, this is the one."
-Haas Mroue
Bio: SANDY DIAMOND'S first book of poetry, Miss Coffin & Mrs. Blood: Poems of Art & Madness (Creative Arts, 1994) was produced as a staged reading directed by Penny Metropulos in The New Plays Festival of Ashland, Oregon, and was a finalist for the 1995 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Poetry Award. In 1995 she received an Oregon Literary Arts Writing Fellowship for Poetry. Her book Bliss, Danger & Gods: Quotes of Risk & Passion (Scribe & Son, 1986) is in its fourth printing. Sandy Diamond lives in Port Townsend, Washington. She performs her poetry with a blues band, Quasimodo & The Bellringers.
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