Skeleton Woman Buys the Ticket by Hester L. Furey

$19.99

 

Poets have more patience than the rest of us with how it takes a while, really a lifetime, for the world to disclose some of its better secrets. You have to know how to look or to listen to what rustles insistently in the understory of the soul that Hester L. Furey calls poet radio. Furey writes with a fortune-teller’s second sight about a souvenir leaf, a foundling kitten in a parking lot, the way your own skin can speak back to you. Read these poems and witness for yourself how her specific locational coordinates in the sea of human history can help you map your own.  

–Cynthia Shearer, author of The Wonder Book of the Air and The Celestial Jukebox

 

With these new poems, Hester L. Furey gives us powerful incantations for a dark and troubled time. Over and over, the myths we know to be truths guide us through unsettled loves and unbridled lusts to answers that lie within the terrifying and undying natural world. Skeleton Woman Buys the Ticket is a secret map showing us the way out of a strange and hostile landscape we didn’t even know surrounds us.

–R.S. Williams, author of “The Lipstick Queen” and Songs My Father Barely Knew

 

Hester L. Furey is a storyteller unafraid of embarrassing details.  She weaves them into poems as fine as dreams that seem to wriggle out of deep crevices full of ambiguities.  Her stories are about the interior geography of being a woman.  Her poems are told from the inside out.  They may scare some readers.  Others may choose to read them only in daylight.  But choose to read them.  They invite us to deepen and better navigate our own dark places.  

–Franklin Abbott, author of Mortal Love: Selected Poems, 1971-1998, Pink Zinnia: Poems and Stories; editor of Boyhood: Growing Up Male; New Men, New Minds: Breaking Male Tradition; and Men and Intimacy: Personal Accounts Exploring the Dilemmas of Modern Male Sexuality

 

 

Description

Skeleton Woman Buys the Ticket

by Hester L. Furey

$19.99, Full-length, paper

978-1-63534-963-4

2019

Hester L. (“Lee”) Furey is a literary historian, poet, yoga teacher, and community activist. The author of Little Fish: Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2010) and the editor of Dictionary of Literary Biography 345:  American Radical and Reform Writers, Second Series, Furey has taught college level English and humanities for 30 years. A member of the editorial collective that created the online literary journal Eyedrum Periodically, Furey likes to keep busy and has completed manuscripts in multiple genres including a book of essays entitled Laboratory and the start of a graphic novel series called Love & Revolution. The first episode of the graphic novel, titled “I Choose Revolution,” artwork and lettering by Michael Rovinsky, won an Idea Capital grant in 2013. Furey’s poems and essays have been published in numerous literary journals and several anthologies including Java Monkey Speaks: a Poetry Anthology, Volume 5; Stone, River, Sky: an Anthology of Georgia Poems; Electronic Corpse: Poems from a Digital Salon; and Winter Tales: Women on the Art of Aging.

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