Joseph

Synopsis

Joseph Is A Less Douchey Dream Songs. -- Jaime Gusman, Poet In The Tradition Of Thunder, Perfect Mind, Dena Rash Guzman Writes Poetry About Vulnerability With Wit And Edge. -- Mark Russell, Author Of God Is Disappointed In You, Apocrypha Now, And Dc's Prez Reboot This Isn't A Telling, It's A Screaming. You'll Have Half Of The Lines In This Book Scrawled On Your Arm In Sharpie By The Time You're Done Reading.-- Mo Daviau, Author Of Every Anxious Wave In Dena Rash Guzman's Joseph, There Is No Other Answer, And This Is The Mere Truth, The Baseline. Only Guzman Can Write A Book So Full Of Truth, Beauty, Pain And Spit. There Is No Other Answer Because Language Is The Answer. These Poems Are The Answer. -- Leah Umansky, Author Straight Away The Emptied World, Don Dreams & I Dream, And Domestic Uncertainties Her Deft Hand Is The Moth & The Flame & Every Wild & Negligent Child, The Mother Of All Belly Laughs. This Book Arrives When It's Needed Most & Bleeds Like Hell Into Open Veins. -- Amy Zimmerman, Author Of Kelley Point, Poetry Editor At The Online Journal Drunk In A Midnight Choir The Poems In This Collection Knocked Me Out. Dena Owns The Language And Pulls Us Right Inside These Gems. I Wanted To Eat The Book, I Loved It So Much. First She Sets Our Brains On Fire, Then She Kisses Them Into Ecstasy. -- Anna March, Regular Salon Contributor With Poems Such As Back Away From My Bloodhut, Joseph This Second Collection By Dena Rash Guzman Acknowledges & Embraces As It Rejects, Spits On, Destroys Traditional Expectations Surrounding Hetero Relationships From A Woman's Point Of View. The Speaker Lives In A Gyre Of Anger, Loathing, Desire & Armor, Expressing Simultaneously The Essential Power & Vulnerability Of What It Is To Be A Woman In A World That Has, Up Until Now, Been Framed By & For Men. I Mouth My Need/greatest To Greatest/in A World So Enormous/even My Hulking Navel/is Small Within It. But In This Collection, Joseph Has Been Served Notice: I Will Ring Your Bell, /son./i Will Ring Your Bell. -- Kma Sullivan, Necessary Fire