Poesía

WHAT I’VE LEARNED SO FAR

What I?ve Learned So Far is a book of poetry written to help mentally ill people get back on their feet and recover. It has poems that describe the hardships I face dealing with my illness. I strongly encourage having a spiritual attitude, so I also included poems about spirituality. Lastly, I wrote poems about being in love. I personally feel having a loving mood to go through life is important, too. I know it is easy to become stagnant and get in a rut, especially after a psychotic episode. This book can invoke motivation for one to recover from a mental illness.

PASSIONS I AFECTES

DONA INSECTÍVORA/En mans d'una dona insectívora, insaciable, ¿com pots prendre/el te sense que la mà et tremoli? Vius predestinat a l'exili,/arran de l'estufa del Café du Commerce, llegint premsa/endarrerida. Ella t'apallissa, li rentes els peus, fas la compra/al súper, pagues la factura del telèfon i no dius mai res.

PAPER FLOWERS, IMAGINARY BIRDS

"Amy Saul Zerby is a roller death derby of sharp and fast clarity ... [H]er poems convey a blast of sass and short punchy wonder." --Derrick Brown, Our Poison Horse (Write Bloody Publishing) "The smart, alluring voice we encounter in Amy Saul-Zerby's Paper Flowers, Imaginary Birds is by turns zany, dark, casual, lyrical, angry, direct. I say voice, because these poems are constantly addressing us, implicating us as readers, as they map a psychological pathway through love, desire and pain always thrumming just beneath the surface. It's a sophisticated voice and entirely contemporary, having learned as avidly from Confessionalism and the New York School as from social media. It's a voice that longs for enlargement and anonymity at the same time; Amy Saul-Zerby's poems themselves become places for hiding and places for being seen: 'i am everything that i'm not / when i am a poem in your hands.'"                    --Richie Hofmann, Second Empire "Amy Saul-Zerby doesn't know what a cliché is. Her poems are strange new flowers bursting from all angles out of everything."                     --Bud Smith, F-250

NOTES FROM REFUGE

There are several women in the poems of Lana Maht Wiggins and I am attracted to each and every one of them - their sufferings, their joys, their fears, and the sheer elegance they display when thrusting their feelings through window panes of splintered glass. I have discovered New Orleans in these poems. Her Notes from Refuge ooze beauty, sensuality, and a glimpse of hope that make you want to cling to life, as I do to each page of a book I can no longer do without. Jacques Sirgent, author of Le Tombeau de Drakula and Euryale de Mortsauve: Les Derniere des Bathory " The poems in Lana Maht Wiggins' Notes from Refuge are the underpinnings of a powerful narrative. The work is haunting and arresting; its clear-voiced beauty is also rare and compelling." Darrell Bourque, Ph.D, Louisiana Poet Laureate and author of Plainsongs, Burnt Water Suite, and The Blue Boat "Like the great storms that preside as its formidable governing metaphors, it proves that real refuge demands above all that one first experience the world as terrible, beautiful provocation: here we seek refuge not from danger, but from an overwhelming devastation of hope." Jerry McGuire, Ph.D, poet and author of The Flagpole Dance and Vulgar Exhibitions "Lana Maht Wiggins' poems force the reader into a chthonic mental landscape where the demonic escapes between lines. Eve's antithesis whose name is Bathory, or those nameless, teeming shameless from the page awaiting nomination reflect the dark feminine in us all." Rhonda D. Robison, poet and English Professor, University of Louisiana ". . . a scarlet and dark absinthe worthy of Baudelaire and Rimbaud . Hana Myo Shin, poet and author of Le Noir et le Rouge, L'encre de Feu, and Jeux de Dames "Quarter-moons accompany these poems . . . a true poet, who made me fly through her art across redefined sunsets, suicidal obituaries, and daily life revelations with authentic ways of experience and sensitivity of darkness and bright." Miguel A. Arellano, author of Vampiros en el Espejo and The Pact "Several of Lana Maht Wiggins' poems can be considered as "gothic"; they speak of melancholy, sorrow and the beautiful sadness that life must contain so as not to be considered totally despairing. Romanticism and passion at their best. Celine Guillaume, author of Le Serment de Cassandra, La Perle d'Eternité, Le Puits aux Marguerites, and, La Litanie des Anges

ABRIL, 30 POEMAS DE AMOR

Abril, 30 poemas de amor es el resultado en su mayoría de un amor puro, sincero y casi perfecto. Al leer cada poema podrán sentir como el autor logró plasmar en papel lo que está viviendo en su corazón. En esta obra se deja entrever muchas emociones y de todo tipo: incertidumbre, miedo, dolor, angustia, alegría, ilusión, esperanza, y al final encuentra la manera de hacer las paces entre ese amor perdido y la fuerza extraña que lo impulsa a seguir buscando el perdón de su amada.