Parking Meters into Mermaids
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1646623134
ISBN 13
9781646623136
Category
Poetry
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Publication Year
2020
Publisher
Pages
40
Subject
Families, Childhood, Aging
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Description
Merrill Oliver Douglas’ Parking Meters into Mermaids is rich with transformation: daughter to mother, body to spirit, domestic to global. “Summer, in My Early Twenties,” includes the lines, “Nights when the t-shirt stuck to my back,/and I could feel the hairs sprout on my legs,/why didn’t some grayer, fatter woman//sit me down and say, ‘Sweetie, this isn’t your life./This is weather.’” “Harvest” describes a pepper’s unlikely winter bloom as “a small fruit, gnarled//as a toothless gnome.” The poem abruptly shifts: “/We won’t eat it./It’s not food we’re after,//just this off-kilter, out-of-/proportion pleasure of seeing/kinked, bare bones give birth.” Each poem in this collection shimmers with off-kilter, out-of-proportion pleasure. -- review by Suzanne Cleary, found on back cover.
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