Are you ready to be seduced? Mary Kennedy Eastham's poetry and prose has been called darkly beautiful, erotic, lyrical and haunting. One reviewer said sitting down with her poems blew his hair back flat reminding him of when he was in high school, laying in the grass at the end of the runway as the jets took off. In the title poem, 'The Shadow of a Dog I Can't Forget' a woman, married for only sixty days, deals with feelings of melancholy by inventing a mysterious dog only she can see. In this carefully crafted world of runaways, mystical goddesses, happy strippers and Marilyn Monroe returned to us to comment on her life being auctioned away, the poet's words nag at us the way only a great seduction can.like liquid pearls falling from the sky above/as soft and easy as a fortune teller's dreams/We are beautiful alone with ourselves/they seem to say/evening snowflakes floating/beneath a faint moon/like fingertips about to touch/a new piano/each sound, each song/a miracle.
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MARY KENNEDY EASTHAM, M.A., MFA calls herself a Word Actress, letting her characters perform different roles on paper which is of course weaving her own needs, her own fantasies, her loves, her loss and her joy into the poems and stories she writes. Her first book THE SHADOW OF A DOG I CAN'T FORGET, now in its 4th Printing, was a Runner-Up for BEST POETRY BOOK and has won high praise by reviewers in New York City, Los Angeles and Bangkok. She has been called a Triple Threat - fun, beautiful and smart. She cops only to the fact that she cracks herself up sometimes. She likes words that end in ess...temptress....mistress...heiress...adventuress and wishes she could teach the world that writing is sexy. Her philosophy on writing is this: I really like my writing. I believe in my writing. To be successful, you need to do your best every day for a very long time. Be on the look-out for other books by Mary Kennedy Eastham:
THE POSSIBILITIES OF LOVE...Short Stories and the novel NIGHT SURFING - A Story of Love & Wonder in the Waves of Malibu. For more info, check out her website at: www.RP-Author.com/MKE
THE POSSIBILITIES OF LOVE...Short Stories and the novel NIGHT SURFING - A Story of Love & Wonder in the Waves of Malibu. For more info, check out her website at: www.RP-Author.com/MKE
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The most memorable poetry book I've read this year,
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This review is from: The Shadow of a Dog I Can't Forget (Paperback)
Mary Kennedy Eastham is a natural storyteller the way some athletes are thought of as naturals. I think one on-line reviewer said her stories were like lullabies for adults. I, too, found a kind of ecstatic beauty in the lyrical quality of her writing. She challenges you and makes you emotionally stronger at the same time. 'Shadow of a Dog' is a good read...wise, funny, intense, and always entertaining. Here are poignant tales of real people; this book will haunt you long after you've read it.
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Impressionistic painterly writing,
By Art Lover (Montclair, New Jersey) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Shadow of a Dog I Can't Forget (Paperback)
When reading Ms. Eastham's poetry I'm reminded of an impressionist or expressionistic painting. She uses words like an artist uses color. At times the ideas are clear and recognizable coming clearly into focus but more often this artist is not spelling out every detail for the reader. One has to use their imagination, creativity and experience as a human being here. These ideas take a moment to penetrate and sometimes require multiple readings in order to establish a connection. It's definitely an interesting read, one that will give you pause for thought.
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Ms. Eastham paints pictures with words,
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The Shadow of a Dog I Can't Forget is a short collection of poems and prose by Mary Kennedy Eastham. When asked to review this book, I immediately felt self-conscious and a little bit intimidated. I mean, it's poetry, for heaven's sake, whatever do I know about verse? In general I avoid it in favor of prose, and when I do read poetry it's usually the rhyming kind, à la Lewis Carrol or William Shakespeare. And so it was with some trepidation that I waited for this book to arrive.
Once this volume fell into my hands, I immediately fell in love with the cover. I thought, mine, and I placed it in my briefcase and carried it around with me, just so I could stare at it and enjoy the pretty blue picture. And when I opened the cover (queen of procrastination that I am), I discovered a different world of words. These aren't toss away reads. Each entry encourages the reader to slow down and actually think, to process the imagery, and to perhaps even read it again. And again. Each entry tells a story, inspires an emotion, or asks a question. I'm not going to pretend that I understood each and every poem or scene. I will, however, profess to have been utterly hooked by a quite a few of them. They contained words that spoke directly to me and images that captivated me. I dare anyone not to be moved by the poem "Forget...Move On...Remember," written to commemorate the first anniversary of the September 11 disaster. It brought tears to my eyes. I also enjoyed the scene titled "Destiny of Joy," in which two runaway boys, so cocky and self-assured in their newfound independence, watch jets take off, fantasize about the passengers, and slowly begin to understand the importance of family. Ms. Eastham paints such a clear picture with her words that I can clearly vision these two losing their bravado and suddenly wanting to go home. And another poem, "Points of Love," appealed to the romantic in me. It feels like a series of vivid snapshots as it describes a New York snowstorm and several women in different stages of a romantic relationship. In all, The Shadow of a Dog I Can't Forget was a very pleasant surprise. Ms. Eastham is a talented artist with words, and this little volume will definitely be read and re-read in my house a number of times.
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