Alcoholic Betty
Horan, Elisabeth / Kenyon, Isabelle
This is the hole. I go thereOn Sundays. I go there after dinnersBefore school --- mid work dayAfter lunch with the boss MondaysThe hole has Hangover coalTo paint my face to smudgeIn the acne, rosacea, colloscum" "Alcoholic Betty, we know the story. She died. Or did she? Through the "hours of penance" that is alcoholism and its attendant chaos-math and aftermaths, recurrent false dawns and falsetto damnations, Elisabeth Horan forges a descent/a...