These poems are from the Dallas-Fort Worth bars, but they could be from big city honky tonks and strip bars anywhere. For single, working women, life is lived on the fine line. There are men, men and more men. All looking into your eyes, for something. Friday night is a boot-stomping night in D/FW. Between the Lone Star long necks, the Cotton-Eyed Joe, chromed out pick-ups, starched wranglers, polished Justin's, and bull riders, Friday nights can get pretty wild. Last call at closing time brings that final nod, that hurried exit into the Texas night air, that desperate grope seeking evanescent true love.
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"Sheryl Nelms dissects the night, and human sexuality, with the compassion of a poet and the power of a chain saw." -- Linda Lee Barclay, Literary Agent, Dallas, Texas
"The raw emotion in this book renders the reader feeling lucky to survive Friday Night Desperate. I know I will..." -- Lynne Van Winkle, Cocktail Waitress, Anthony's Bar, Ft. Worth, Texas
"This in-your-face collection of poems bravely exposes the lonely world of sleazy bar rooms, honky-tonk dives and all-night diners. Little moments of everyday grief light up like the flickering neon sign from a by-the-hour motel. These poems, drenched in sweat and slow dancing, are not for the gutless. They should be read by those who have survived too many nights in the company of strangers and those who hope they never have to. Like Texas swing music with a hint of jazz, the poetry of Sheryl Nelms soars." -- Elizabeth Mary Larson, author of Stomp and Other Stories.
Nelms poems are filled with lust, loneliness, and laugh out loud lines with double meanings -- Cover Magazine, Spring 1997
"The raw emotion in this book renders the reader feeling lucky to survive Friday Night Desperate. I know I will..." -- Lynne Van Winkle, Cocktail Waitress, Anthony's Bar, Ft. Worth, Texas
"This in-your-face collection of poems bravely exposes the lonely world of sleazy bar rooms, honky-tonk dives and all-night diners. Little moments of everyday grief light up like the flickering neon sign from a by-the-hour motel. These poems, drenched in sweat and slow dancing, are not for the gutless. They should be read by those who have survived too many nights in the company of strangers and those who hope they never have to. Like Texas swing music with a hint of jazz, the poetry of Sheryl Nelms soars." -- Elizabeth Mary Larson, author of Stomp and Other Stories.
Nelms poems are filled with lust, loneliness, and laugh out loud lines with double meanings -- Cover Magazine, Spring 1997
About the Author
Sheryl Nelms lived Friday Night Desperate in the Dallas/Fort Worth bars. Billy Bob's, Filthy McNasty's, Jubilation, THe White Elephant, The Cadillac Club, Studebakers, The Peppermill, Cowboy's, The Stage Coach and The Longhorn Bar were all on the circuit. A divorce in 1984 precipitated the glide into the two-stepping world of "Ladies' Night." Dance lessons at Texas Christian University smoothed the way. Required to take Junior Composition to graduate from college, Sheryl began writing in 1978. Her teacher, poet David
Allan Evans, encouraged her to take his Creative Writing course the following semester, and to submit her first poem to a poetry magazine. (He even gave her the address!) The poem was published. Since that first published poem, Sheryl has had over 4000 poems, articles and stories published in a variety of media. Some magazines that have published her work are: Reader's Digest, Cricket, Kansas Quarterly, Buffalo Spree, The Spoon River Quarterly and Modern Maturity. She has also has six books of poetry published, including Land of the Blue Paloverde, winner of the 1996 OWFI Pegasus Award. She has been an editor, a contributing editor and a teacher of writing. Ms. Nelms lives in Fort Worth, Texas with her husband, who she met at the Western Hills Bar, when he asked her to dance.
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