From Your Hostess At The T&A Museum

by Kathleen Balma

From Your Hostess At The T&A Museum is a stunning series of imaginative leaps and encounters, as playful as it is momentous. Not only poetry lovers, but enthusiasts of art history, fantasy fiction, sci-fi, westerns, travel narratives, nature documentaries, and historical fiction will delight in its genre-bending adventures and inventions. How did Abraham Lincoln build the log cabin he was born in? What happens at an invisible gun show? Are aliens really controlling a Chicago musician's ears? Kathleen Balma crafts answers to these and other metaphysical questions with a language all her own. Known for her deadpan humor and lack of pretense, Balma has given us a first book that is both light to carry and hard to put down.

• ISBN13: 9781913606886
• Publish Date: 14 February 2022
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Eyewear Publishing
• Edition: Large type / large print edition
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 77
• Language: English

Reviews

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Thank you, NetGalley for the chance to read and review From Your Hostess at the T&a Museum by Kathleen Balma!

 

As much as I want to love the whole of it, some pieces stood out more than others. The book seems fairly different from a lot of modern poetry that I get my hands on, and I do appreciate that!

 

The book is divided into two sections, Harlequinade and Snubbed. The former is a collection of poems, where some were good and others forgettable. Some of my personal favorites are, A Tour of Pompeii's red-light district; Stopping time is not as useful as we thought; The Forgiveness project; and what do ghosts need.

 

The second section, Snubbed, is really fun to read, even if it is a little odd!

 

 

 

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