Bøger af Valerie Martinez

Open-Hearted Horizon: An Albuquerque Poetry Anthology invites you into a poetic conversation. The anthology includes a wide range of Albuquerque-based poets and poems that are inspired--directly, associatively, obliquely--by Albuquerque, New Mexico, as a place and as a community. Anthologies commonly celebrate a multitude of voices. Because this one is place-based, it aims to draw you into a circle that deepens your sense of place and people, of contexts and cultures, whether you know Albuquerque or not. Because the Albuquerque poetry community is characterized by its support for individual writers and by a strong impulse toward creative collaboration, Open-Hearted Horizon features poems in multiple voices. In addition to poems by individual poets, this collection also features collaborative works, including those by the EKCO collective and one that features a line from every poem in the anthology. Overall, the collection invites you to experience Albuquerque in all its richness, diversity, and depth.

It''s not just the good girls who get their Christmas wishes;the naughty ones get something "X"tra special in their stocking this year. These three steamy novellas, as red hot as Christmas candy and just as spicy, are guaranteed to keep fires burning all winter long. Hot For Christmas P.J. Mellor Boutique owner Allison Conroe just found her perfect Christmas gift, all gorgeously wrapped in well-worn denim. Rugged Texas loner Chris MacNeal is a sexy Scrooge determined to rattle Allison''s chains--but the merry vixen has more satisfying games in mind. . . Triple Xmas Valerie Martinez All Deb wants for Christmas is a threesome with her boyfriend and hunky lumberjack Dale Lix. Unfortunately, her environmentalist lover considers Dale the "enemy." But with a little steamy persuasion--and some help from Mother Nature--Deb is ready to kindle her own kind of forest fire. . . Cabin Fever Melissa MacNeal Washing away his holiday heartbreak in whisky and solitude, ranch owner Danny Black thinks he''s hallucinating when he sees a Christmas angel, wings and all, through a blizzard. It''s cold outside, but soon things are heating up in his cozy cabin as angel costume and cowboy boots are tossed aside for some sinfully sweet holiday cheer. . . WARNING! This is a REALLY HOT book. (Sexually Explicit) Valerie Martinez is a proud San Franciscan native. She moved to New York to attend Barnard College where she graduated with a Creative Writing degree. She currently lives in Brooklyn.

In her second collection of poems, Valerie Martinez builds on the artistic command of language that characterized her award-winning first volume, "Absence, Luminescent." Taking on not only such familiar themes as love and loss, family and culture, but also the creative act of poetry itself, "World to World" crosses new boundaries to chart a mature poet's awareness of her own voice and style. Martinez explores the dynamic of creation/dissolution in original and intriguing ways. Here are the strange and provocative landscapes of the body and its disappearance . . . of matter and the absence of matter . . . of what is formed and what is falling from form. Throughout this compelling cycle, her deft manipulations of poetic structure disclose the boundaries where flesh, matter, and language become spirit, space, and "cataractical brilliance." In charting the relationships between time, form, body, language, and emptiness, "World to World" maps the territories where the visible and the invisible meet, offering unexpected discoveries for discerning readers.