Another Rude Awakening, Poems by Dori Appel
In the quirky poems of Dori Appel’s Another Rude Awakening, the everyday world is reflected back to us, slightly off-kilter, in a way that awakens the reader to a new, startling, and engrossing vision.
"Dori Appel writes poems as if she were 'a shipwreck's last survivor,' commemorating and rejuvenating the past, illuminating overlooked details, and inspiring us to take heart, bear fearless witness, and truthfully, all-inclusively share the experiences that shape and define our diverse, spirited journeys. Every subject is so surehandedly yet tenderly addressed, every rhyme, cadence, and word are so-perfect! There's no other word for it. Dori Appel understands as few do that we all inhabit the spaces between, 'when we are nameless and infinite.' Her poems in Another Rude Awakening help me to see the people and things of this world as Fellow Travelers who are all actively holding up an edge of the tent."--Robert McDowell, Poetry as Spiritual Practice
Dori Appel’s poetry has been featured in many journals, magazines, and anthologies, including six collections published by Papier Mache Press. Among these are When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple and The Best Is Yet To Be, the audio recording of which was a 1997 Grammy finalist. A playwright as well as a poet, her work has been widely produced throughout the United States, as well as internationally. Her monologues are featured in several anthologies, and three full length plays are published by Samuel French. Working between the two genres, her poems sometimes become monologues or scenes in dramatic works. The recipient of several regional and national playwriting awards, she was the winner of the prestigious Oregon Book Award in Drama in 1998 for Freud’s Girls, in 1999 for The Lunatic Within, and in 2001 for Lost and Found. To learn more about her poetry and plays, visit her website at http://www.doriappel.com.
ISBN-13: 978-1934999233, 128 pages, $19.00