Don't miss the "The Tree Angel," the new book from Eliiza, with illustrations by mixed-media artist, Gabriel Bishop. It's available today at Amazon and other major online booksellers.
Check out Eliza's first collection of poetry, "Kissing in Iceland," available at Amazon.com, Lulu.com, Barnes and Noble, and Booktopia.com.
NEWS
April 2010 -- Tune in to hear Eliza on "Full of Crow" with Lynn Alexander, on Sunday, April 25, at 10:00 PM EST. Eliza will be reading selections from her latest book, "Kissing In Iceland." Check it out at http://fullofcrow.com/audio/crow-radio/.
March 2010 -- "Kissing in Iceland" is being featured on the front page of Shoots and Vines!
February 2010 -- Come join Eliza on Good Reads at http://www.goodreads.com/elizalocke.
February 2010 -- Eliza Locke is on Twitter! Follow her tweets for the latest information on reviews, upcoming events, and new releases at http://www.twitter.com/elizaocke.
December 2009 -- Subscribe to Eliza's new blog, "Cast Adrift" at http:// www.elizacastadrift.blogspot.com.
PRESS
December 2009 -- Check out Eliza's latest interview with Dennis Stevens of Catzilla Productions. www.catzillaproductions.com/index.php
REVIEWS
"Kissing in Iceland, a book of poems by Eliza Locke and illustrated by Kelly Carmody, is a series of quiet revelations. The poems read like excerpts from a novel, with the hint of fully realized characters who have a sudden flash of insight as to who they are and what is happening to them.
The title of William S Burroughs' 'Naked Lunch' came from his friend Jack Kerouac. The Poet of Lowell read Burrough's untitled manuscript and described it as a Naked Lunch - a frozen moment where everyone realizes what's at the end of their forks. Locke's poems, written mostly in first person, describe frozen moments where someone suddenly understands the truth of their own existence.
The poems read like commentaries on actual experiences. Some of the experiences sound searing and painful, others are tender and joyful. There are just enough details to allow a mental picture, or trigger one's own memories. There is a sense of relentless honesty, which gives the whole book an integrity and authenticity.
The theme of the book is love. Love at many stages, from a beginning glance, to the days of bliss and passion, to the moment when it is gone and will never come back. There is a melancholy in the words. Even with the poems of lovers entwined, there is sense these are fleeting moments. Many of them seem to take place in a hotel room. The only images of domesticity describe the end of a relationship. Homes exist only long enough to fall apart. Real home is the cons tant movement. The only constant is the ceaseless flow and change.
Kelly Carmody's illustrations, so spare they suggest doodles in a margin compliment the poems perfectly. Both words and images have sparseness that have just enough to suggest what is happening, then allow the reader's emotions to fill them in." -- Dennis Stevens, Catzilla Productions
"Eliza Locke's carefully-crafted collection bursts with sensory language and confronts the reader with intensity from its first line. Raw, bold, and unapologetic, these poems derive a fragile beauty that manages to bloom from within the depths of their often precarious themes. It is impossible to put down." -- Alexis Czencz Belluzzi, Practicing Distance
"In the intense and beautiful collection, Kissing In Iceland, poet Eliza Locke and illustrator Kelly Carmody jet us around the world with their deftly interwoven art. From locations including Charlestown, Massachusetts, to Reykjavik, Iceland, to Hollywood, Locke carefully leads us through a wilderness of white-hot love, sensual fervor, betrayal, and loss as we travel from one physical location to the next. Emergent among the multitude of flowing images offered here are memorable, 'Stories of yearning/and of passion/and of the give and take of love' as the speaker states in 'Snow Days,' one of the title location poems." -- Liz Ciampa-Leuzzi, What is Left
"Sometimes you read poetry. And sometimes you're struck by it. Warm words describe cold subjects in Kissing In Iceland, where the darker side of life and love are presented in Eliza Locke's brilliant writing style. She gives us glimpses into a world we may never actually visit, but will surely feel as if we've been there. It's beautiful and cutting and edgy, with illustrations by Kelly Carmody that are powerfully subtle." -- Lucy Spinetti, Boston Literary Magazine
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