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BITING MIDNIGHT
By Maria Alexander and Christina Kiplinger-Johns
Medium Rare Books 0-9711162-2-9
Softcover $14.95"Biting Midnight" is a brilliant collection of dark poetry from two women with the biggest pair of balls. The poems are a tad disturbing and completely sublime, drawing their strength from a very real and familiar world that we live in.
In the fist half of the book, Maria Alexander expertly dissects emotional duality, wading in the darkness of the human soul and how we painfully hide it from the world. What I love best about her poems is how she brings out our connections to objects and people who are bad for our well-being, as well as the paralysis that they hold over us. Very Joycian.
Christina Kiplinger-Johns, in the other half of the volume, exposes an urban setting, focusing on a fictional town (or is it?) called Sunnyside. Gothic-like poems deal with manic anxiousness, isolation, and suspicious neighbors and widows. Kiplinger-Johns expertly questions our sanity within and insane and crowded world.
Reading this volume of poetry, I was reminded of some of my favorite authors (Kathe Koja, Caitlin Kiernan, S.P. Somtow) and how, with such few words, they nailed down my own emotional state and the world I am forced to live in. "Biting Midnight" is necessary for any fan of the written word.
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www.thehandlesspoet.comReview by Mike Purfield
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"If you're looking for a good read, something you've never experienced before, then this is the book for you." Paul Kane of Terror Tales.
Rated 3 out of 4 by Unhinged Magazine.
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