My mom, Sue Parman, has a new poetry chapbook out: The Thin Monster House (Finishing Line Press).
Here are a few links, for those of you who are poetry fans:
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Finishing Line Press.
—Gigi
Here are a few links, for those of you who are poetry fans:
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Finishing Line Press.
“Keenly
observant, intelligent, and filled with moments of beauty, The Thin Monster House tastes of nature,
life and loss. I felt as if I was on a journey with a poet taking me to
new, unexpected places. Sue Parman’s poetry is edgy, sharp and acute.”
—Sandra Giedeman, past president of the
Orange County chapter of PEN, Pushcart Prize nominee, and winner of the Mudfish
Poetry Prize
“From modern to ancient times, these poems call forth the
cycles of the natural world and human life on planet Earth. With unexpected
turns, Sue Parman applies the unimagined to the ordinary, taking the
reader deep into primal elements and outward into the universe. A thoroughly
luscious read!”
—Marie Buckley,
President Emeritus of the Oregon Poetry Association
The thin house on the hill is
invisible
to adults but children know
when it will appear,
although it can be seen only
by its dark perimeter
for less than a minute. Such a brief time, seconds fizz
through fingertips, not
enough time for fears
to bubble and trouble small
spirits, and yet
so much can happen inside of
a single minute….
—excerpt from the poem, “The Thin Monster
House”
Sue Parman is
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and an award-winning poet, playwright,
essayist, and fiction writer. In
academia she is the author of six books and numerous articles on topics as
diverse as Scottish crofters, Japan, and the neurophysiology and cultural
patterning of dreams, and has published in diverse literary genres, from
memoirs, science fiction, and travel writing to sonnets and haiku. For thirty years she studied a
Gaelic-speaking community in the Scottish Outer Hebrides, and many of her
academic writings and literary fiction deal with Scotland. Since moving to Oregon in 2009, she has
received over ten writing awards, including four first-place awards from the
Oregon State Poetry Association and Oregon Writers Colony, two Kay Snow Awards
from Willamette Writers, and Honorable Mentions from Best Travel Writing Annual
Solas Awards and Oregon Humanities. Her
poetry has appeared in Cloudbank, Verseweavers, Slant, The Hiram Poetry
Review, and The Elephant-Ear, as
well as other venues, and her short stories, plays, and essays have appeared in
Voice Catcher, Lumina, Journeys, The Elephant-Ear, Spectacle, The Los Angeles
Times, Songs of Innocence, and BewilderingStories.com. Produced plays include “Queen Victoria’s
Secret” (which was performed in Portland’s Fertile Ground New Play Festival in
2011, published in Voice Catcher, and
nominated for the Pushcart Prize).
Information
about upcoming readings and publications can be found at: http://www.sueparman.com/
and http://anthro.fullerton.edu/sparman/.
—Gigi
Congrats to your mom :) Tell her Hi and give her my love and Congratulations :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Shannon!
ReplyDelete