Cervena Barva Press is pleased to announce the publication of
Discarded: Poems for My Apartments
by Chad Parenteau
In this new collection by Chad Parenteau, the peculiar intimacies of the shared apartment experience emerge in imaginative and startling shapes. In Parenteau's stunning tropes, the apartment, now war zone, now toxic wasteland, now party palace, at once magical and mundane, finds its excited denizens "burning their hands on bulbs to stay awake, / afraid to miss a summoning." Parenteau musters poignancy, pathos, and the pathetic from the crowded sink and the discarded vodka bottles, breeding them into his lines with an acute and ironic sensuality. If, as the author contends, "The bed now leaves its own notches/on the backs of everyone/who's slept in it alone," these poems will leave their mark on the mind of any reader who has ever stammered through a roommate interview or suffocated from the incense sneaking under the crack at the bottom of a roommate's door.
-Tom Daley, Instructor for the Online School of Poetry
Order online at The Lost Bookshelf.
Discarded: Poems for My Apartments
by Chad Parenteau
$7.00 + $3.00 S/H
25 pages, paper
Publication Date: May 2008
For information contact:
Gloria Mindock
Cervena Barva Press, Somerville, MA
Email: editor@cervenabarvapress.com
Discarded: Poems for My Apartments
by Chad Parenteau
In this new collection by Chad Parenteau, the peculiar intimacies of the shared apartment experience emerge in imaginative and startling shapes. In Parenteau's stunning tropes, the apartment, now war zone, now toxic wasteland, now party palace, at once magical and mundane, finds its excited denizens "burning their hands on bulbs to stay awake, / afraid to miss a summoning." Parenteau musters poignancy, pathos, and the pathetic from the crowded sink and the discarded vodka bottles, breeding them into his lines with an acute and ironic sensuality. If, as the author contends, "The bed now leaves its own notches/on the backs of everyone/who's slept in it alone," these poems will leave their mark on the mind of any reader who has ever stammered through a roommate interview or suffocated from the incense sneaking under the crack at the bottom of a roommate's door.
-Tom Daley, Instructor for the Online School of Poetry
Order online at The Lost Bookshelf.
Discarded: Poems for My Apartments
by Chad Parenteau
$7.00 + $3.00 S/H
25 pages, paper
Publication Date: May 2008
For information contact:
Gloria Mindock
Cervena Barva Press, Somerville, MA
Email: editor@cervenabarvapress.com
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