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Little Automata of the Deciduous Forest
(poems)
(coming March, 2027)
River River Books
Stalin at the Opera: poems
Selected by Diane Seuss as the 2020 winner of the Ghost Peach Press poetry contest, Stalin at the Opera "excise[s] the dead girl buried beneath the story, approaching literature, performance, and history with a superb intellect and, by turns, operatic lushness and bone-spare truth-telling," Seuss writes. "The focus is tyranny, Stalin, as reality and metaphor...Stalin at the Opera is painful, original, magnificent."
"Like all good theater,Stalin at the Opera sings in dark places." --Quan Barry
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"Mirande Bissell's book claims a place beside the savage art of Sylvia Plath, Angela Carter, and Charlotte Salomon." --April Bernard
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"The personas speaking the poems are so original, haunted, authoritative and strange I know readers will fall under their spell." --Mark Wunderlich
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cover art (excerpted below) by Anna Togrye, scultpor (https://www.antsculpt.com/)
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