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Trouble And Honey
Jilly Dybka
Sample poems:
Self-Portrait with Roulette Wheel
(after Lucie Brock-Broido)
There, a man pushes the spin button
on the slot machine with the end of his cane.
With you, speaking is unnecessary, even
when we both have the same thought,
so if you were to utter the meaning, the words would fly
out of your mouth like new butterflies
breaking out of their sacks, flitting
away, wing by wing, in a wind the color of neon
across a nicotine sky, the blur
of a weekend in Vegas.
I will go on loving as I love the burn card
and the design on the back of a deck.
As I love the laughable or a big bet
so quiet it is next to prayer.
The Reanimation of Ted Williams' Frozen Head
It is almost imperceptible -- the twinkle of ice rime thawing
in an interior steel room filled with exaggerated gases,
near a regal super-neuro-unificator machine.
Everything is silent but for a discontinuous tinkling,
which means the enfolding of the field begins,
which is a prognostication of the heft of the bat,
which means science is in the catbird seat,
conquering the poke and stir of ashes,
so the scientists all incant: whosoever
liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
The super-neuro-unificator goes “ding”
and Ted Williams' head twitches, and
Ted Williams' head opens his eyes,
and the scientists all step forward,
and the scientists peer down
like Zeuses. They ask: tell us how
it was, when the air was good,
and tell us about baseball
and green grass Sundays of
left field. Please do
begin.
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Reviews for Trouble and Honey:
"After reading this book, I am at once pleased and a bit jealous. I wish that I could write a single sonnet as fine as any one of the multitude presented here. I confess I am hoping to dream some of these poems tonight, re-imagining them in a new context. And what about theme? Well, just like some things stay lost, it may be that some things are not to be easily found in the first place."
-- Justin Evans, Tuesday Poetry Review, tinyurl.com/6eb5xo
"Jilly Dybka's poetry is like a cinematic rack-focus on the world we live in; a startlingly precise and carefully made look at war's effect on family, on the glory of people who choose their own paths (the great Omni, for one) and who that woman really is, over there across the aisle on the city bus. And there's baseball and other mind-altering substances, too.
Language gets more life under Dybka's care."
-- From Good Reads, tinyurl.com/6armsv
About the author:
ISBN 13: 9780970619655, 63 pages, $7.77 USD
Bear Shirt Press, 2008
(or free download)
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Trouble And Honey
Jilly Dybka
"Trouble And Honey is an inventive and musical romp through Jilly
Dybka's fascination with weird, weird America. She effortlessly takes
us from The Great Omni to Graceland to Ted Williams' frozen head.
Dybka is not afraid to confront the political, and dances on the edge
of a clearly imagined history with references to Vietnam, forgotten
diners, circuses, and a sweet lost history. Diane Arbus would feel
right at home with this collection on her bookshelf."
-- Rebecca Loudon, author of Radish King and Cadaver Dogs
"Jilly Dybka hears the movement of our lives like a sculptor feels the
force of shapes, and there is no arguing what she sees. So textured in
sound are these poems, one has to agree Trouble And Honey returns
language back to its rightful place as the source of our joy." --
-- Major Jackson, author of Leaving Saturn and Hoops
Sample poems:
Self-Portrait with Roulette Wheel
(after Lucie Brock-Broido)
There, a man pushes the spin button
on the slot machine with the end of his cane.
With you, speaking is unnecessary, even
when we both have the same thought,
so if you were to utter the meaning, the words would fly
out of your mouth like new butterflies
breaking out of their sacks, flitting
away, wing by wing, in a wind the color of neon
across a nicotine sky, the blur
of a weekend in Vegas.
I will go on loving as I love the burn card
and the design on the back of a deck.
As I love the laughable or a big bet
so quiet it is next to prayer.
The Reanimation of Ted Williams' Frozen Head
It is almost imperceptible -- the twinkle of ice rime thawing
in an interior steel room filled with exaggerated gases,
near a regal super-neuro-unificator machine.
Everything is silent but for a discontinuous tinkling,
which means the enfolding of the field begins,
which is a prognostication of the heft of the bat,
which means science is in the catbird seat,
conquering the poke and stir of ashes,
so the scientists all incant: whosoever
liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
The super-neuro-unificator goes “ding”
and Ted Williams' head twitches, and
Ted Williams' head opens his eyes,
and the scientists all step forward,
and the scientists peer down
like Zeuses. They ask: tell us how
it was, when the air was good,
and tell us about baseball
and green grass Sundays of
left field. Please do
begin.
www.lulu.com/content/2159373
Reviews for Trouble and Honey:
"After reading this book, I am at once pleased and a bit jealous. I wish that I could write a single sonnet as fine as any one of the multitude presented here. I confess I am hoping to dream some of these poems tonight, re-imagining them in a new context. And what about theme? Well, just like some things stay lost, it may be that some things are not to be easily found in the first place."
-- Justin Evans, Tuesday Poetry Review, tinyurl.com/6eb5xo
"Jilly Dybka's poetry is like a cinematic rack-focus on the world we live in; a startlingly precise and carefully made look at war's effect on family, on the glory of people who choose their own paths (the great Omni, for one) and who that woman really is, over there across the aisle on the city bus. And there's baseball and other mind-altering substances, too.
Language gets more life under Dybka's care."
-- From Good Reads, tinyurl.com/6armsv
About the author:
Jilly Dybka lives in a small town near Nashville, Tennessee with her
husband and animals. She works in Information Technology, has graduate
degrees in Creative Writing and Information Sciences, and blogs at
Poetry Hut Blog: www.poetryhut.com/wordpress
ISBN 13: 9780970619655, 63 pages, $7.77 USD
Bear Shirt Press, 2008
(or free download)
[glow=teal,2,300]BUY HERE, BUY NOW:[/glow]
www.lulu.com/content/2159373