Joanna Fuhrman, Author . Hanging Loose $21 (72p) ISBN 978-1-931236-17-1
While Fuhrman's debut, Freud in Brooklyn, won attention for its ingenuous comic voices, her sophomore effort represents a major advance: epigrams, short sequences, quasi-parodies and expertly managed strict forms send up the seriousness of a...
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Joanna Fuhrman, Author . Hanging Loose $25 (76p) ISBN 978-1-931236-53-9
A moraine is a hill or mound of soil and debris created by a moving glacier; the exciting mishmash of insights, associations, charms, jokes and biting social commentary in Fuhrman's third collection partake of the sedimentary, omnium-gatherum...
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Joanna Fuhrman, Author . Alice James $15.95 (73p) ISBN 978-1-882295-77-7
Fuhrman's fourth book of poems is as miscellaneous and daunting as a rummage sale. Her personal brand of what her publisher calls “pop-surrealism” has moments of hilarity, illumination, solemnity and insight, but is at times...
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Joanna Fuhrman, Author Hanging Loose Press $13 (68p) ISBN 978-1-882413-72-0
The prosy, likeable poems of this debut have the insouciance of comic verse: ""Blue Poem #6"" recalls Elaine Equi's sly panache, especially in its Zen-ish opening line: ""A woman in an `I am here' T-shirt says nothing""; the poem then opens out into
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