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Doris Day and Kitschy Melodies (Questa Press Poetry Series)

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Exquisite meditations, elliptical and epiphanic, all demanding attention and inviting re-reading. These one-page prose poems are worth the study that they require. At first the pieces seem like exercises in free association, but they emerge as deeply coherent. One thinks, Where is this set of images going? But it arrives at its destination precisely and just in time. The author has obviously struggled to find the mots justes, and has found them. The pieces create an effect tender and moody; then abruptly comes a twist of thought or a splash of offhand humor, e.g. "Clients at the nail salon sit on benches that make me think of sitting shiva."

These are prose poems at their best. What a unique voice
this writer has. These pieces are so many things at
once like great jazz; there's stream of consciuosness
but then there's
plain talk even small talk and bits of conversation,
humor, darkness, vivid memory, admission, eyewitness,
randomness, structure. What a read! Like nothing I've
ever read before. Ms. Koestenbaum is the real thing.