Bellow & Hiss by Alyson Gold Weinberg – NWVS #173

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Although the music of her poetry has a bit of a classical air, Alyson Gold Weinberg’s vision seems succinctly punk somehow with sharp shiny edges emerging from dark spaces. What it all adds up to are lines and images that pull you in and poems, which from the plain surface of the page, inspire you to move.

–Jose Padua, author of A Short History of Monsters

 

Alyson Gold Weinberg’s Bellow & Hiss sings with a poignant ache and beauty that makes music in its language and stark imagery. These poems are historic, gritty, and deeply personal—coiled in wild earth and cosmically bittersweet moments. “Like a willow whose very name means lamentation,” Weinberg weaves trauma to transcendence, sorrow to heart, and heart to human empathy. “I must remake what is broken … embroidering a story—no back space, no back space—distracting from loss, tending the presence of love—forever ending a line by beginning the next one.”

–Kai Coggin, author of Mining for Stardust, Incandescent, and Wingspan 

 

Alyson Gold Weinberg serves as a poetic tour guide for how it feels and what it signifies to be human, taking us from the womb to adulthood, bearing witness at all times to the myriad joys and sorrows on offer. This collection abounds with empathy, intelligence and insight … navigates worlds, at times ebullient, often fraught with doubt and fear, and always redeemed by love. There are many relatable, necessary concerns expressed in these pages, but mostly Bellow & Hiss is a poignant reminder of what it means to be alive.

–Sean Murphy, author of The Blackened Blues and Rhapsodies in Blue

 

 

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Bellow & Hiss – NWVS #173

by Alyson Gold Weinberg

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$17.99

979-8-88838-371-1
2023
“Riding shotgun with Oedipus, your mother, and the pothole in your heart,” Bellow & Hiss navigates generational suffering and hurtles headlong toward reverie. The collection’s knowing “I” interrogates the dark gift of childhood trauma, the nature of family, and the weaving together of identity. Bellow & Hiss asks: “Have you ever been properly pruned? A love equation carved into your skin?” What does it mean to bear fruit from rotten seeds? Tucked among the branches and brambles of this collection are revelations about growing up and upward, spiritual endurance, and the art of creating oneself. The “scarred arms” in Bellow & Hiss—of drowning Ophelias, anthropomorphic dieffenbachias, and pandemic Penelopes—reach toward the light, “gasping for living things.” 

Alyson Gold Weinberg is an award-winning poet, playwright, speechwriter and ghostwriter. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Alyson Gold Weinberg renders the “yearning curve” in this, her debut, poetry collection. Alyson’s poems have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies including December, District Fray, The Best of Choeofpleirn Press, WWPH Writes, among others. She is a 2021 Jeff Marks Memorial Prize finalist, winner of the 2021 The Inner Loop Poetry Prize, winner of the 2021 Derick Burleson Poetry Prize, a 2022 Harbor Review Jewish Women’s Poetry Prize finalist, and a 2022 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition finalist. Alyson’s play, Object Relations, had its livestreamed staged reading premiere during the pandemic to benefit mental health equity. A fully-staged production is in the works.

 

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