In a quietly seductive voice Lisella takes the reader on journey
after journey, to exotic locales like Havana, Venice and
Dubrovnik, places steeped in myth and bloodshed.
With crystalline descriptions reminiscent of Elizabeth Bishop,
she mixes the haunted elegance of the old world and the
disturbed consumerism of the new. TWO NAKED FEET is
brilliantly wired with the tension of paradox.
It is about exile and the movement of peoples, the destruction
and pastiche of cultures, the chasm between the idealized world
and the colloquial one. Lisella writes with depth and
simplicity. Her “I” rarely steps outside of the observing eye to
become autobiographical, and yet the poems
are remarkable for their passion.
—STEPHANIE DICKINSON
Award-winning author of Half Girl and Road of Five Churches
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TWO NAKED FEET by Maria Lisella ISBN 978-0-9841844-1-5 (soft cover/saddle-stitched/24 pp.) $8.00 (+ $1.50 S&H) |
Photo Credit: Stillman Rogers
Maria Lisella is Program Coordinator
for the IAWA readings at the Cornelia
St. Café, and is co-editing an anthology
based on those readings. She lives in
Long Island City and was a finalist in
the competition for Poet Laureate of
Queens in 2007. A longtime travel
writer, she currently edits a national
travel trade magazine and is a member
of the New York Travel Writers
Association. |