Fried Chicken Schmussy Other Songs from a Baptist Hymnal by Alicia Young
Brand: James Goddard
Product Description
Alicia Youngs poetry is inspired by her life experiences which like the lives of most of us have been a mixed bag of both horrors and delights. The daughter of a dead drunk father and a hellcat Baptist mother she has worn many masks including mother exwife lover former mortician middling pianist and above average tap dancer. She has the tongue of a harpy the heart of a benevolent queen the gall of a mad king and is rumored to be a wee bit of a tramp who learned her fi rst lessons in pain love and joy in the highly conservative American south. Her writing celebrates human existence in all its variety and with all its pitfalls and is ultimately a voyage of selfdiscovery. She writes poetry as a way to mitigate her demons cry to the heavens and sing triumphant the gifts granted to each of us in our tenuous hold on life. Alicias poetry has been called poetry for people who dont write poetry. It is loud vulgar sexy and painfully sweetand it will punch you in the mouth. Alicia Young is a poet editor mother of twin boys and avid reader. She is a modern day Southern belle born on Kentuckys Bourbon Trail and is seventh great granddaughter of Pocahontas. She enjoys black coff ee and Wild Turkey in the morning complemented by a fi ne cigar at night. Her Electra complex is the stuff of legend. She makes a hobby of causing blonde women to cry. Ms.Young is the baddest woman on the planet with a set of nunchaku while any southern rock is playing. Her writing has been published in The Long Islander Cultural Weekly American Funeral Director The Vagina Gun The Musophobist The Montucky Review TakeItToTheStreetsPoetry The Juice Bar The Moronic Ox Literary ampamp Cultural Journal and The Mas Tequila Review. She is the author of a previous collection of poetry Hell on Heels published in 2012 by LadyLazarus Press. Fried Chicken Schmussy and Other Songs from a Baptist Hymnal is her second full length book of poetry. show more
Condition : New
Author : Alicia Young
Weight : 238.39
Publisher : James Goddard
Language : English
EAN : 9781909849242
ISBN10 : 1909849243
Format : Paperback Softback
Date of Publication : 20170109
Place of Publication : NA
Pagination : 84 Pages Illustrations Black And White
Dimensions : 216 X 140 X 5