From the Back Cover
"In this wild, sexy, exuberantly off-the-wall collection, parrots, puppets, and the great Casanova take turns force-feeding Viagra to the stuffy old sonnet. But it's Myrna Stone's Rabelaisian gift for language that really steals the show. My head's still spinning."
--George Bilgere
"Sonnets spoken by parrots? Couplets rhymed by a ventriloquist's dummy? A book of poems like no other, wonderfully oddball yet technically impressive, The Casanova Chronicles offers more wonders than a cabinet of curiosities, more pleasures than a night of vaudeville. The legendary lover himself comes alive through voices spiked variously with sympathy, humor, and bile. That's Myrna Stone's gift: to lay bare the hearts that throb beneath feathers and flesh, and sometimes even wood."
--Michael Waters
"These poems rant, chatter, cajole, prate, excoriate. Each is a busy bee, a chatterbox, a blabbermouth in which a husband talks so sexy to his wife that a waiter has to shut him up or an aged Casanova catalogs his bowed legs, his paunch, his loose flesh. Stone's lines crackle with wit and insight and burst from the page like a dropped bottle of soda pop. Put this book in the other room when you go to bed tonight--it's noisy!"
--David Kirby
About the Author
Stone is the author of two books of poems, How Else to Love the World and The Art of Loss. Her work has appeared in such journals as Poetry, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, Boston Review, & Quarterly West, and in such anthologies as Beloved on the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude and Flora Poetica: The Chatto Book of Botanical Verse.
