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Mary Turzillo's new poetry collection, Your Cat & Other Space Aliens, is out from vanZeno Press.
The book has already gathered nominations for the Stoker and the Pushcart award. Joe Haldeman says of it, "Mary's book as "a huge banquet of food for thought, as well as a display of poetic virtuosity and intense emotional complexity." Darrell Schweitzer calls the work "...funny... creepy... heart-rending." Bruce Boston calls it a "stunning menagerie... a superbly rich collection of speculative poetry."
Turzillo says, "The poems aren't just about cats and aliens, although I use both to talk about people's lives. The poems are about how people face life, love, and death without the easy cushion of philosophy. They are also about how wonder can suddenly lift you up and make your world radiant with meaning though a second earlier or a second later there was and will be no meaning. Or perhaps meaning is always there, but it takes a comet or a story or a prehistoric animal or a moon of Saturn to ignite that brand in the darkness."
Mary Turzillo is a Nebula winning fiction and poetry author, publishing in F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. Her work has taken multiple prizes in the Ohio Poetry Day contests, and won a second place for the Rhysling Award. Her novel, An Old-Fashioned Girl, was serialized in Analog.
VanZeno Press is a new Cleveland-based imprint of award-winning writers with an emphasis on oral performance and popular appeal.
Mary will be at Arisia, at the Hyatt Regency, 575 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, January 18-21, 2008.
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