Poetry. African & African American Studies. MERCURIAL is the latest collection of poems from Allison Joseph: always accessible, musical, full of hard-earned wisdom, sass, and courage. Joseph writes about everyday situations in deft, heartfelt poems that span the spectrum of poetic ambition-free verse narrative, short lyrics, traditional rhyming forms and topical meditations. She is a poet of song and strut, an ambassador for the written word's deviations and variations, a conversationalist who just happens to speak in rhyme ...
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Poetry. African & African American Studies. MERCURIAL is the latest collection of poems from Allison Joseph: always accessible, musical, full of hard-earned wisdom, sass, and courage. Joseph writes about everyday situations in deft, heartfelt poems that span the spectrum of poetic ambition-free verse narrative, short lyrics, traditional rhyming forms and topical meditations. She is a poet of song and strut, an ambassador for the written word's deviations and variations, a conversationalist who just happens to speak in rhyme and meter. Readers of this book will encounter a woman who's not afraid to be herself--even if that self is ever-changing, ever- evolving. "Reading the aptly titled MERCURIAL is like having a long and eclectic conversation with an old friend whom Henry James would have called 'a woman on whom nothing is lost.' While clear thematic threads interweave the poems in the collection--Joseph's women are strong and unconventional, surmounting difficult circumstances and rejecting male stereotypes--Joseph also inspects quirkier topics with a tongue- in-cheek gravity. Where else would you find a poem entitled 'Self Portrait as Small Town Bus Depot?' Joseph, a mistress of the sonnet form, demonstrates in these poems that her sassy, distinctive voice is equally at home not only in free verse but also in complex forms such as the villanelle and the rondeau redouble. But most importantly, these are poems that take center stage with the confidence of a talent honed to perfection, needing no permission to revel in their self-assurance: 'A woman in a red dress / is lighting her skin from/within.'"--Anna Evans "In MERCURIAL, the poet Allison Joseph explores those most vital journeys that make us human. More than that, the poems in this collection help us find the backroads to what is necessary in order to examine our own
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