George Wallace reviews Urban Haiku and More in the Latest Big City Lit

A big shout out to George Wallace for his amazing review for my book, "Urban Haiku and More" in the latest issue of Big City Lit.

Here's an excerpt from the review:

In Urban Haiku and More, Patricia Carragon brings something else to the table. There's a kind of urbane wittiness to these works, by turns caustic, plaintive, engaging and abrupt — a kimono-clad harkening to Whitman's notion of the Barbaric Yawp.

This is poetry on the urban edge, haiku that attempts to straddle the wide gulf between New York City street smarts and the ineffable parlance of the zen moment. Often enough, it is compelling stuff.

Carragon is nothing if not in this world and of it, warts and all, delineating the painful truths as opposed to the transcendental. There are ample examples of her unflinching candor: Here's a couple "I douche my drain/With Drano/she/does hers/with Liquid-Plumr.' ' stained sheets/not from/your boyfriend's last visit.' Or this: 'love/decides to/take the subway//and gets screwed/in the/tunnel.' 

(Read more at: http://www.bigcitylit.com/bigcitylit.php?inc=fall2011%2Freviews%2Fwallace)

URBAN HAIKU AND MORE:
Haiku, Senruy, Hay(Na)Ku
and other Unrhymed Tercet Poetry
by Patricia Carragon

Fierce Grace Press, 2010; 52 pages; $7.00

 You can purchase Urban Haiku and More at:

 

St. Mark's Bookshop

31 Third Avenue between 8th and 9th Streets

New York, NY 10003

http://www.stmarksbookshop.com/

212 - 260-7853

 or buy them in person.  

Find a used copy at: 

P.S. Bookshop
 76 Front Street
 DUMBO, Brooklyn,NY 11201
 Phone# (718) 222-3340
 www.psbnyc.com
 Take the F to York

Reviews for Cindy Hochman and Chocolate Waters in Gently Read Literature for December

 

I love the very impressive format for Daniel Casey's Gently Read Literature.  In this issue are my reviews for Cindy Hochman’s The Carcinogenic Bride, published by Poetry Thin Air Press (2011) and Chocolate Waters’ The Woman Who Wouldn’t Shake Hands, published by Poets Wear Prada and Eggplant Press.  I highly recommend these books.

For Cindy Hochman’s The Carcinogenic Bride

 

Clear the aisles!  Here comes The Carcinogenic Bride by Cindy Hochman from Poetry Thin Air Press (2011). No fanfare or organ music to accompany Ms. Hochman’s 22 poems.  Band-aids and surgical gloves need not apply.  Cindy’s poems are not bouquets of shrinking violets. They stand alone, cultivated by her brand of Brooklyn sensibility and wit.

Unlike my signature piece, The Bride Wore Black, which is my vow to singlehood, Cindy walked down a different aisle and emerged a survivor.  She survived the trenches of marriage, divorce, and cancer.  Her book is her license to life.

Yet she doesn’t walk alone.  Many women have walked down that same aisle. They are the warrior women who have battled with spouses or danced with the “Big C”.  They are the women who could relate most to Ms. Hochman’s stories and learn to laugh at life. (Read more at http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/grl_dec) 

  

For Chocolate Waters’ The     

Woman Who Wouldn't Shake 

Hands

 

After a thirty-year hiatus,Chocolate Waters emerges with her spicy new chapbook, The Woman Who Wouldn’tShake Hands, published by Poets Wear Prada(2011) and Eggplant Press (2011). Chocolate’s writing is rich, creamy, and dark with a shot of vodka: theflavors that make her thirty-two poems taste yummy like her name and leave youcraving more.  Ms. Waters, the PoetLaureate of Hell’s Kitchen and a lesbian activist, shares her passion, pathos,and humor on that most confusing and complex word in any language—love.  Her short pieces are honest and simple,spiced with grit, and easy to relate to. You cry one moment and laugh the next.  Chocolate doesn’t want to shake your hand.  She wants you to get to know herinstead. (Read more at http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/grl_dec)

From

Patricia Carragon

 

Patricia Carragon's December Publication News

Hi Everyone,

It's the busy season at work and in writing. So much is happening in regards to publications, etc.  

If I have repeated some of this news before, I'm sorry.

PUBLICATIONS:

MÖBIUS, THE POETRY MAGAZINE

I'm honored to be one of these fine Brevitarians selected to be in the forthcoming beautiful issue of MÖBIUS, THE POETRY MAGAZINE. My Haibun, "The Healing Pond," was selected. Congrats to these Brevies. Thank you "Brevie" Juanita Torrence-Thompson for all your hard work and spirit.

SANFORD FRASER

CINDY HOCHMAN

EVIE IVY

MARIA LISELLA

KATRINKA MOORE

KAREN NEUBERG

HAL SIROWITZ

RICHARD STORM

JUANITA TORRENCE-THOMPSON

JOHN J. TRAUSE

GIL FAGIANI

Pet Poetry Publication "Paws, Claws, Wings and Things"

Pleased to hear that my poem, "The Kitten," has been accepted for publication in the Pet Poetry Publication "Paws, Claws, Wings and Things." Congrats to Roxanne Hoffman for being published in this anthology. And hooray for cats!!!

First Literary Review-East - December Issue

"Brevies" Cindy Hochman and Karen Neuberg never miss a step in putting out a stellar edition of First Literary Review-East. My 99% piece is in the December Issue.

Read poems from Scott Rummler, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Philip Beitchman, John A. Todras, Sue Machlin, Stewart Florsheim, Ryan Buynak, Tammy Houtz, Matthew Anish, Erika Dagnino, and Tom Oleszczuk

http://www.rulrul.4mg.com/

Symmetry Pebbles #2 (once a poetry blog is now an online magazine)

Richard Thomas' Symmetry Pebbles has expanded as an online free poetry e-zine. My Cupcake Chronicles #10 is in their 2nd issue. It's worth reading and submitting. Please subscribe at:

http://symmetrypebbles.wordpress.com/

for a free download.

Congrats to all the contributors in this issue:

Gary Beck, M.A. Schaffner, Joe Massingham, Joseph Farley, Clyde L. Borg, Bill Wolak, Greg T. Miraglia, Denne Kara Shaffer, Marie Lecrivain, Timothy Charles Anderson, Saloni Kaul, George Freek, Michael Estabrook, Peter Lindsey, Christopher Barnes, Lilian Oben, Mira Marten-Parker, Robert Garnham, Nicolas Grenier, Daniel Barbare, Patty Mooney, Patricia Carragon, Spree Macdonald, Ann Prendergast, Demond Blake, Ian Davis, Michael Lambert, John Grey

The Cartier Street Review - November Issue

My “The 99%” poem is in the fabulous November issue of Cartier Street Review. Please submit and subscribe. Brownstoners, Joy Leftow and Doublex have worked hard on the editorial staff with Mike Finely, Thomas Hubbard, Brad Eubanks, and Marc Carver.

Click on http://mfinley.com/cartier/index.html

for your free download and please subscribe.

Congrats to all the contributors in this issue:

April Bulmer, Claudio Tomassini, David Cooper, Robert Gibbons, Annika Ruohonen, Fred Arcoleo, Niccola DeVereaux, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Nicholas Alexander, Ann Rodriguez, Mike Finley, Joy Leftow, John Yamrus, Bernard Alain, Karen Bowles, Thomas Hubbard, Dubblex

Have a Great Holiday Season and Keep Writing and Submitting!

Pattie oxoxox

My Review for Susan Maurer’s Maerchen in the June Issue of Gently Read Literature

My Review for Susan Maurer’s Maerchen in the June Issue of Gently Read Literature

Maerchen, Susan H. Maurer, Maverick Duck Press, 2008

Mythology, colored by Druid shamans, inspired Susan H. Maurer to document her poetic journey, Maerchen. Like a Celtic design, Maurer’s thirteen poems weave the past into the 21st Century. Her fascination with Celtic history began in the basement of the Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village, New York, where she read about the Celts and Druids in The Encyclopedia of Religion. Although the facts of this edition of The Encyclopedia of Religion were questionable according to a revised edition, learning about the myths and poetic traditions sent Maurer on her Celtic quest. (Read more at http://gentlyread.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/through-celtic-eyes-patricia-carragon-on-susan-maurers-maerchen/)

Please also check out Susan Maurer’s Poetry Thin Air Interview on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp0RVTsRsYo

Poetry Thin Air Interview - Susan Maurer

www.youtube.com

Thailand: Updated "Thai Banknotes Catalogue" available

Anybody seriously collecting Thai banknotes cannot do without the updated Thai Banknotes Catalogue by Somchai Saeng-ngern. This very detailed catalogue in both Thai and English languages was released in Dec 2009 and is sold at a very nominal price of 900 Baht or approx 28 USD.



Thai Banknotes Catalogue Somchai Saeng-ngern
by Somchai Saeng-ngern
ISBN 978-974-235-606-4
Size 30x21.5cm, 272 pages


This catalog covers all paper money issued since 1853 from the reign of HM Rama IV to the present Series 15 banknotes with signature of Korn Chatikavanij (กรณ์ จาติกวณิช, Minister of Finance) and Tarisa Watanagase (ธาริษา วัฒนเกส, Governor, Bank of Thailand ).

Sample pages can be viewed at Thai Banknote Catalogue sample pages.

Chapters dedicated to banknotes issued by foreign banks in the 1890's and Commemorative banknotes are very interesting to read. A notable upgrade from the previous editions is the improved quality of images and more accurate data concerning serial number prefixes and market prices. One noticeable point is that this catalogue does not make any references to Krause's Standard Catalog of World Paper Money or Pick numbers. Also details of watermarks and security threads in the form of images would be helpful and recommended for next edition. However, what this catalogue lacks has been or will be covered in my checklists.

Examples are:
Thailand: Series 9 Banknotes.
Thailand: Series 10 Banknotes.


In short it is a must for all Thai banknote collectors. Anybody interested in buying this catalogue over the internet can contact the publisher at www.hobbyinter.com or Mr.Waranon Tiamkeaw. Note that they can ship this catalog abroad to foreign collectors.