Terry Godbey, 2006 winner of Slipstream's poetry chapbook contest, has just had a new book of poems, "Beauty Lessons," published by Quercus Review. It's available at Amazon.com.
Here follows what some are saying about Godbey and BEAUTY LESSONS:
“Terry Godbey's Beauty Lessons are dynamic narratives of loss and recovery that wrestle with motherhood, domesticity, the body's frailties, and the unleashed wilderness of desire sucked on ‘like peppermints.’ There is plenty of regret here, and yet, ultimately, this is a book about triumph and redemption: ‘Hurry and pick yourself up/ it is enough right now/ to eat and drink/ and save your own life.’”
-- Dorianne Laux
“Terry Godbey's poems are carefully deployed, personally revealing, and shamelessly boy-crazy. In the best of them, she leads the reader through the doors of adolescence and into the house of poetry.”
-- Billy Collins
“Terry Godbey’s Beauty Lessons is a poetic homage to the fearlessness of women and girls, beginning with learning to ride a bicycle in a dream and ending in triumph over fears and betrayals. … Most dazzling are her apostrophic meditations, and a metonymic range that dances among cereal and war games, test pilots, earthquakes and sonic booms. These poems open onto a journey through the whole of a life thus far, and throughout the reader feels buoyed on the fountain of air that held up the rider in the dream.”
-- Carolyn Forché
“Honest, gritty, blunt at times – always brave, her work is reminiscent of Sharon Olds and Kim Addonizio, but most of all, reminds me of the songwriting of Lucinda Williams.”
-- Nancy A. Henry
To order a copy, go here: http://www.amazon.com/Beauty-Lessons-Terry-Godbey/dp/0974307092/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1290528173&sr=1-2
