Lyrical Poems of Grace and Distinction
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Woman with a Tree on her Head: Poems by Patricia Corbus
Publication: March 2023
CONTACT: Blue Edge Books
Sarasota, Florida, where Patricia Corbus grew up, used to be a circus town. “We could hear lions roaring at night, escaping into our dreams.” Back then, Pat wanted to become a tightrope walker. In a way, writing poetry is like walking a tightrope. The circus permeated daily life. Her parents owned a shell shop and she was surrounded by the enchantment of sea shells. “Our little house was so full of shells I remember crunching down on a tiny ceritheum in my mashed potatoes.” Her mother read aloud to her from A Child’s Garden of Verses, and her father often slipped poems under her door. From these origins has come the rich and original poetry evident in Woman with a Tree on her Head.
I remember everything, even what didn’t happen,
all packed inside earth’s blue cloak, stuffed
with caresses, knives, bandages.
Published by Blue Edge Books based in Santa Fe, NM, Woman with a Tree on her Head is Patricia Corbus’ third book of poems. Corbus writes about the troubled beauty of the world and human life in this lyrical collection of grace and distinction. Sly and funny, a little baroque, a little surreal, accepting and generous, her poems spark with surprises.
Please let me hear from you.
Slip a letter under my door,
smoke an exploding cigar with me,
take me out for a cherry bomb
or a Molotov cocktail.
About poetry Corbus has this to say: “In a room full of dogs, poetry is the cat; in a room full of cats, it’s the dog. It’s a scarlet ibis, anything anti-gravity, a flying machine, a radiance that pierces and spreads. The vanishing point.”
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