Bøger af Linda Lerner

Linda Lerner has approached the Nursery Rhyme from a 21st century position and interpreted them through poetry in a whole new way! Along with the illustrations by artist Donna Kerness, Lerner unleashes a new twist on the old, worn-out stories of humpty dumpty, the pussy in the well, Rip Van Winkle, Jack Be Nimble, Friday's Child, Ring Around the Rosy, and London Bridge Is Falling Down. It's a modern take on the ancients.

Linda Lerner's, When Death Is A Red Balloon, deftly explores one of the most intense feelings in life: deep grieving. Her loss of the closest of friends, her rock in life, is devastating beyond words. Yet she manages to find a voice to her mourning and gifts us these poems which are both deeply personal and universally recognizable. Anyone who has experienced the loss of someone they loved needs to read this book. -- Alan Catlin, poet & editor of Misfit Mag.

In Taking the F Train, a New York City poet rides the F Train through the final years of the 20th century into the 21st; both gentrification and technology are rapidly transforming life as she has known it. Her old haunts...cafés, bookstores, diners, are being replaced by luxury co-ops. There are also losses due to illness and aging...those of others as well her own. And it's not OK, she cries out! At the same time, for every push forward into the future, she's witnessing an opposite push back into the past by the so-called leader of the free world. Nothing makes sense to her anymore. There's only what can be salvaged by art...the act of creation.

YES, THE DUCKS WERE REAL deals with relationships of all kinds, as well as, what goes into day-to-day survival--things that concern everyone and things everyone can relate to. In these poems Lerner goes from being an observer, as in "The Girls from Hell," to focusing on her own life, which she has successfully mythologized in order to reflect on our fast changing times. YES, THE DUCKS WERE REAL is a collection of modern tales that will have you reading and relating and reverberating into your own mind's mythologies.