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Dec 23, 2009
Despite it’s light, almost delicate title, Shana Linda is an intense, serious read. Though rich with imagery, novel, exacting metaphor and a synthesesia of sensuality, there’s nothing easy about this work. It takes the reader on a journey through a drama that is emotionally and physically painful, moving through child abuse, rape, persecution, homelessness, poverty, grief, and longing. That the writing is so evocative adds to the intensity as it draws the reader directly into the centre of the a
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Aug 07, 2009
Julene
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I had to slow down to enter Nanette Rayman-Rivera's world and language, I found myself reading each poem several times, I looked up words and did goggle searches to come into her work deeper. This is a book that is rich with dense images, her writing evokes pain yet rides the pain using exotic flowers-flor de maga & Laeila Lobata (an orchid), birds, and the world of theater. I learned much that was out of my radar: Laurette Taylor is the famous silent film star; Sarah Heartburn is a common name
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Nov 01, 2009
Martha
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I read poetry in the way I view modern art, not with a mind full of rules established by The Poetry Elite, but rather for an eye toward what moves me. Even if I don’t understand the meaning of the poem, I consider it a marvelous success if the words leave me with a unique twist on the world: an image, impression or emotion so strong I can almost taste it.
Such is the case with the poems of Nanette Rayman Rivera in shana linda ~ pretty pretty. Throughout the 31 poems there drifted the More...
Such is the case with the poems of Nanette Rayman Rivera in shana linda ~ pretty pretty. Throughout the 31 poems there drifted the More...
Nov 06, 2009
Juliet
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4 1/2 stars.
Rayman-Rivera's is an original poetic voice, offering a painful mix of melodious and gritty--beautiful imagination and harsh reality--lush sensuality and unwanted poverty.
At times difficult to read due to its themes of homelessness, drug addiction, and withering dreams, yet this is a voice that needs to be heard.
Rayman-Rivera's is an original poetic voice, offering a painful mix of melodious and gritty--beautiful imagination and harsh reality--lush sensuality and unwanted poverty.
At times difficult to read due to its themes of homelessness, drug addiction, and withering dreams, yet this is a voice that needs to be heard.
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