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For Immediate Release
Desert Noon
lost poetry by Victoria Valentine
over 36 poems and prose
72 pg paperback
$12.00
ISBN:
978-0-9843602-6-0
ISBN:
0-9843602-6-3
Library of
Congress Control Number 2011928537
published by Water Forest Press
http://www.waterforestpress.com
available online Water Forest Press,
amazon.com, barnes&noble, etc.
“Words
that Flow” a review of Desert Noon, a book of poetry by
Victoria Valentine
“i
often imagined dazzling prose/that surged and swayed with ease” is
a line from “every time you go away,” a poem by Victoria Valentine
in her new book Desert Noon. Here is a hint. If readers read
this work of art, they will not have to imagine; they will feel the
surge, the sway and be dazzled by the romantic poetry in this
wonderfully written book of poems.
There is a fairy
tale quality to Valentine’s style as she mixes forces of nature with
exotic strikes of passion as she catches the reader in a
thunderstorm of beautifully turbulent words.
“instead
I’m Rapunzel/ stuck up here in this castle/ but beneath my window no
charming paces.”
No gallant lover
to take her away; she is alone with her long reddish blond hair and
roving thoughts of passion. “I’d be Lady Godiva” baring myself to
the world if love would come to me---oh how I want to find someone
to love me back. “life’s been dry for months/ no rain, nothing
like a thunderstorm” again this poet mixes natures wrath with the
longing for a storm of feelings to wash over her, to bring her to a
“romantic interlude.” She spends her hours hitting the keys,
writing poems, almost like Emily Dickinson, with imaginary lovers
coming in and out of her poems. But she longs for the real thing.
“reaching
for your outstretched hand/ this sea beckoned not so far/ I yielded
richness of your waves…/ bridging curves of thirsting dunes.”
I am the sand
longing for your waves to brush against the shore of my skin. I
want to be “floating like driftwood” I want to end up in your
current. But instead I am “whispering futility/ your silence my
sigh/ words not exhausted/ no theme for goodbye.” My theme is that
something is missing from my life and I am floating aimlessly
without love so “my story will draw/ lines on pink parchment” and my
throat will long to be quenched by your tongue, your sweet
kisses---saturate me as if I am Mother Earth and you are a
torrential rain of love---I will absorb you, I will absorb you…
And as a reader,
you will absorb every word, every line, every stanza, every poem and
the dichotomy will become like one of the poems in this book called
“you and me.” And you will feel “sleep, unrequited love” and
“restless luxuries” which want so much to find contentment in the
need for partnership…
These poems often
contain intense touching of words and skin between speaker and
object of the poem, but often they mourn of that which cannot be
found…the search for peace within self which seems unattainable
without a significant other.
We will be swept
away in a torrent of sometimes breezy, sometimes gusty, near guilty
pleasures in this incredibly intense work which is typical of the
fervent style of Victoria Valentine. This woman’s poetry is just a
match waiting to be struck…and when it is…look out, because the
blaze may singe your perusing eyes.
jacob
erin-cilberto
(author of an
Abstract Waltz)
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