Lauren Bacall Shares a Limousine
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In Susan J. Erickson’s highly-crafted collection of poems, LAUREN BACALL SHARES A LIMOUSINE, we return to the women who came before us. From the well-known Frida Kahlo and Marilyn Monroe to the lesser-known Monique Braille and Lucy Audubon, these poems offer surprise, delight, and poignancy. Erickson’s sharp sense of play and imagination is her signature on these poems–the Venus de Milo dresses for a Halloween party, the Little Mermaid joins the Aquatic Arts Academy. The reader is rewarded with every turn of the page as the lives (both real and imagined) are spoken, explored, and expanded. Here, women stretch in the spaces “of the calm and chaos of sunrise and sunset, / the shimmer of amber, / the roar from the lion’s mouth.” Smart and accessible, these poems satisfy our desire for stories, and Erickson doesn’t disappoint. Recommended for every bookshelf.
–Kelli Russell Agodon, Author of HOURGLASS MUSEUM
About the women in the book
If you would like to read more about the women in the poems here are some of the resources I consulted for the poems in Lauren Bacall Shares a Limousine:
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Susan J. Erickson 