Böcker av Barbara Alfaro

Winner of the 2012 IndieReader Discovery Award for Best Memoir. A Catholic girlhood, New York theatre, marriage, and the healing power of humor are interwoven in MIRROR TALK's lyrical and often witty reflections.

This beautiful collection illuminates the poet's journey from girlhood to widowhood. "Still, Papa, somehow you conveyed to me/quiet is where you go to get soul things out" she writes in "Tough Guy," a childhood memory poem. In "Catbird," the title poem of the book, humor interrupts grieving..."I loved her once/when I saw her lipstick hidden under the pillow./Like Marlene Dietrich in "Dishonored,"/applying lipstick before the firing squad,/no pale mouth would greet eternity."/Barbara Alfaro's poems have appeared in various journals including The Blue Mountain Review, Variant Literature and Poet Lore.¿