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In Let Us Be Raucous, Lynne Handy calls out truths as she sees and remembers them. Childhood memories come to life in the first poems, including reactions to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Biographical events propel the next section-an apology, suicides, an inability to cope with loss. The poet revives in "Door, " and becomes militantly feminist, particularly in "Memo" and "Testimony." She addresses national and world issues in "Mothe...

Distraught over her partner's betrayal, poet Maria Pell (no stranger to paranormal phenomena) flees to a writers' retreat in a small North Carolina coastal town-a place where racial tensions seethe and river mists and blind reverence for old traditions hide secrets of the living and the dead. Maria plunges straight into these mysteries as she searches for the woman who inspired verses written by a deceased local poet. At the same time her writ...

Spy Car and Other Poems is Lynne Handy's debut chapbook. The locales of her poetry range from an excavation site in Greece to a modern city street where she finds Tupac's rose thrusting up through the concrete. In her work, she embodies the hard-headed realism of her Yankee forebears, but also digs into southern roots to bring forth mystery and longing. The poet's love for history is reflected in many of her verses. Some poems are brazenly per...

After popular horror fiction author, Edwina Frost, dies a lonely death in her farmhouse cellar, her politician nephew asks poet Maria Pell to write Edwina's biography. He hints that there are episodes in Edwina's life that will require sensitive treatment. When the bones of a child are found on Frost farmland, Maria intuits a connection between the child and Edwina. Maria can feel that Edwina's soul has not gone on to a sweet reward, but inste...

It is 1949 in a seaside town in Mexico, and Caterina lives happily as a cherished daughter of a wealthy family. She has only one worry: she has no early memories of her childhood. Increasingly, strange images drift into her mind-a gazebo, a farm, a blonde woman. She has no idea that she is really someone named Cate Miller, who was kidnapped from her Indiana farm family ten years earlier. In her fifteenth year, her life changes again. This time...

It is 1949 in a seaside town in Mexico, and Caterina lives happily as a cherished daughter of a wealthy family. She has only one worry: she has no early memories of her childhood. Increasingly, strange images drift into her mind-a gazebo, a farm, a blonde woman. She has no idea that she is really someone named Cate Miller, who was kidnapped from her Indiana farm family ten years earlier. In her fifteenth year, her life changes again. This time...