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Read in August, 2008
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A CURE FOR SUICIDE by Larissa Shmailo - Cervena Barva Press / 47pps / $7.00
How can you not like a book that opens with the “Vow” that
We will love like dogwood.
Kiss like cranes.
Die like moths.
I promise.
and sensually seques thereafter? As if making good on that very opening vow, Shmailo follows up with “My First Hurricane”
Like a dead leaf
Lifted from the scorched summer earth
Now wet and almost gree...more
How can you not like a book that opens with the “Vow” that
We will love like dogwood.
Kiss like cranes.
Die like moths.
I promise.
and sensually seques thereafter? As if making good on that very opening vow, Shmailo follows up with “My First Hurricane”
Like a dead leaf
Lifted from the scorched summer earth
Now wet and almost gree...more
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A Cure for Suicide
Larissa Shmailo
Cervená Barva Press
Reviewed for The Pedestal Magazine by Joselle Vanderhooft
Larissa Shmailo plumbed the depths of human emotion and the heights of such extreme human states as homelessness, madness and grief in her dramatic 2006 spoken word CD The No-Net World. Although the majority of the poems in her latest chapbook, A Cure for Suicide, read less...more
A Cure for Suicide
Larissa Shmailo
Cervená Barva Press
Reviewed for The Pedestal Magazine by Joselle Vanderhooft
Larissa Shmailo plumbed the depths of human emotion and the heights of such extreme human states as homelessness, madness and grief in her dramatic 2006 spoken word CD The No-Net World. Although the majority of the poems in her latest chapbook, A Cure for Suicide, read less...more
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