Perris, California
Published on 1. October 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-0-9631385-8-3 (ISBN)
Description
Poetry. "Norma Chapman's PERRIS, CALIFORNIA is pungent truth-telling, peopled by a call-girl cousin, ditzy aunts, grandmothers, lovers, her mother and father ('the fifth husband of his second wife'), in a voice unique to the time and this poet, the voice of a laconic rapier. These poems, often arising from the Great Depression and WWII, entertain, elucidate a life few readers will recognize, but all will revel in."--Gregg McBride
"In her uncompromising gaze at the realities of age and life and death, Chapman's poems reveal the immense vitality of a lively mind and give no quarter to the solemn pieties."--Jean Norhaus
"In her uncompromising gaze at the realities of age and life and death, Chapman's poems reveal the immense vitality of a lively mind and give no quarter to the solemn pieties."--Jean Norhaus
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 155 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
113 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9631385-8-3 (9780963138583)
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Person
Norma Chapman grew up in Perris, California, a small railroad town, and now lives in Brunswick, Maryland, a small railroad town. Now in her 80th year, she is publishing her first book of poems.