I’m pleased to
announce the forthcoming publication of Square
Feet, a full-length poetry book. Square
Feet will be available in January from Accents Publishing.
More information is
available on my website, www.loriamay.com.
A press release is also available online: www.loriamay.com/SquareFeet_MediaRelease.pdf
Review copies are
available by request; send an email to lori@ loriamay.com
with your potential publication details and I’ll be happy to get you a review
copy!
ABOUT THE BOOK
Square Feet explores domestic spaces—emotional,
psychological, and physical—within a wounded relationship. A variety of poetic
speakers shape the narrative arc, offering internal and external perspectives.
The collection contains 59 poems, some of which have been published in literary
journals such as Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems,
Black Dahlia Journal, Caper Literary Journal, New Mirage
Journal, Ragazine, r.kv.ry, and Steel Toe Review.
FROM THE BACK COVER
Within the square footage of ordinary
domestic space, Lori A. May reveals a world of wonder where “wedding dishes
gather dust” and a couple speaks “of kindle,/matches, seeds.” As she takes her
reader beyond the closed doors of a starter home, May reveals the shifting
seasons of married life, creating an empathetic portrait of a young couple
buoyed by ambition, shattered by loss, yet determined to start anew. With wit
and wisdom, Square Feet pays incisive tribute to those unsung “reminders
of lips/and fingers and tongues/busy with the ceremony/of feasting.”
—Jane
Satterfield, author of Her Familiars
The resilient poems in Lori A. May’s Square
Feet understand that we should never denigrate the everyday since our lives
are made up of it. Dish-washing, furnishing a first home, late suppers and dinner
parties, building balance into a relationship, cats on the sill, the parental
visit, the possibility of childlessness, gardening, and shopping, the
day-to-day exists here in the fullness of its metaphoric potential. These poems
are cautious about optimism (for “Gravity/ has been known to be cruel”) but
persist in desire. Often leavened with wry humor, May’s poems aim to look
at the world square on, and yet still have the courage to hope.
—Christine
Gelineau, author of Appetite for the Devine
Each of Lori A. May’s vivid aphoristic
poems in Square Feet raises a miniature window into a moment of marriage or
domestic life. Unadorned and unafraid, May’s lines recreate these scenes of
love and angst in dioramas of plain words and short lines. Square Feet gives
us sex and despair, yes, but also quizzical whimsy. The truths of wry surprises
make these poems the work of a mature heart and a trenchant tongue.
—Molly Peacock, author of The Second
Blush
More info online at www.loriamay.com.
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