Dear Friends,
My new poetry collection (winner of the Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition) is now available for pre-ordering. As many of you know, the number of copies Finishing Line Press will print depends on the number of pre-ordered copies, so, if you intend to buy the book (which makes me very, very grateful), now's the time. The book, itself, will make its physical appearance in early November. (My apologies for the delayed gratification).
To order the book, please go to the Finishing Line Press New Releases and Forthcoming Titles webpage:
http://finishinglinepress.com/NewRel...mingTitles.htm
Scroll down (alphabetically) until you reach my name and the title,
The House Sitter, then click the "BUY NOW" credit card logo. May the poems bring you some pleasure in return.
Ever appreciatively,
Leslie Monsour
Comments about the book:
Ned Balbo (Competition judge)--"Leslie Monsour’s The House Sitter offers a compassionate, clarifying vision of a fallen Golden State. [...Her] characters come alive in language we might expect from Elizabeth Bishop had she settled in California instead of Brazil. Whether observing the young soldier at the airport— “part boy, part man, and part machine of battle”—or recollecting her own parents in their evening martini ritual— “Lamplight caressed/their faces as if nothing could go wrong”—Monsour captures time, place, and person with an ease and concision that are, quite simply, unforgettable."
Rhina Espaillat--"Monsour’s images in this quietly wise book are perfect, geared to invite the reader into every poem, often through the senses. Every one of these invitations works, the repeated readings are an illuminating experience, and the guide is not only reliable but riveting."
Timothy Steele--"The House Sitter wonderfully fuses intelligence and vivid sensory experience. Tonally, the poems here range from the hauntingly evocative to the gently humorous to the tartly epigrammatic."
Robert B. Shaw--"Leslie Monsour's California, a place where humanity and nature chafe and strain against each other in a fraying environment, is brilliantly captured in this chapbook. As in her fine first book, The Alarming Beauty of the Sky (Red Hen Press), Monsour's handling of verse technique is consistently deft. The House Sitter is equally notable for its artistic finish and for the unsettling portents many of its poems leave tingling in the mind."
It's pre-ordering time at Finishing Line Press
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