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Monsters And Other Lovers

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she reminds me of bukowski, the simplicity of her language, but there is a lot going on in these poems...she writes about her sexuality, her childhood, her mother's battle with cancer, and she shows the reader the beauty you can mine out of vulgarity...

If Gertrude Stein were to have had a literary offspring, Lisa Glatt would do her proud. Monsters & Other Lovers is an amazing book of poems. Buy this book.

I found it interesting that people who purchased this book also purchased Alice Seybold's The Lovely Bones. While both are lovely in their own way, this book is full of the grit of reality, while of course Seybold's is the cotton candy world of the hereafter. Personally, I prefer Glatt's vision, though I thoroughly enjoyed both books. Glatt's work is stark and honest, yet human and infinitely forgiving. I highly recommend this book.

You need something vibrant yet compelling to kick-start a career in poetry, and with Lisa Glatt's debut book, she has done just that. If you know Glatt pretty well, Monsters and Other Lovers will scare you; if you don't know Glatt at all, the book will still scare you.

Published in 1996 and written over a period of many years before that, Glatt writes about what she knows and has experienced, albeit sad and horrifying in a mundane sort of way, it remains true and real. Split into four parts that loosely tie in with significant changes in her life - her mother's breast cancer, Glatt's own accident as a young girl, her move to 69 Rose Street. She even has some advice for impoverished writers with "I am Weird to the New Boys": When you write for a living/and no one buys your words/canned food grows appetizing."

Glatt is a fresh voice in this turbulent world of anger and pain, and she reminds us that even though life may be going to hell in a hand basket, there is still hope.

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