Michele Battiste
Greetings from Boulder, Colorado! I'm very excited to announce the upcoming publication for my next book: Slow the Appetite Down! Spire Press is putting it out as part of its new inSPIREd series. It's a perfect-bound chap and it's available for pre-order - $8 and no shipping costs.
You can see it at:
http://www.spirepress.org/battiste.html
The amazingly talented and cool Kelly Cherry wrote a wowzer blurb:
In her third chapbook Michele Battiste presents poems of such a dynamic intelligence that the reader finds herself exhilarated: it’s like riding with the top down! The view expands to take in what was never expected: an old woman in a shoe, palendromic numbers, the pain of not quite being Humphrey Bogart. Even a poem about the long lines women endure at intermission. And when did you last read a poem about Kegel exercises? A wry benediction for a child in the womb places the whole world in perspective. Battiste has an exceedingly sharp eye and an even sharper wit. Smart, passionate, and complex, these poems remind us that our lives are far more exciting than we sometimes think.
—Kelly Cherry, author of Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems
And if you are ever in the Denver/Boulder area, come on by for a visit and we'll show you the creek!