From 7.13 Books: POST-Apocalyptic Valentine by Linda Watanabe McFerrin.

Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, novelist and travel writer Linda Watanabe McFerrin’s new poetry collection navigates the spaces between depression, humor, and dark revelation.

With inspirations as varied as Sylvia Plath and Lenny Bruce, POST-Apocalyptic Valentine spans time, space, and even our galaxy in exploration of what it means to love.

PRAISE

“I have loved everything I’ve ever read by Linda Watanabe McFerrin. Her prose and poetry are filled with amazing women, charm, wisdom, and light. She is both soulful and precise, eloquent and full of life.”  –Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird and Hallelujah, Anyway

Haunted by history as well as by present ghosts, ghouls, and goblins, Watanabe’s poems are charged with the force of the great changes we’re facing as a planet, as a society, and as individuals. And yet their ferocity is tempered with a gracious attention to the delicate details of daily life. These are poems that listen even more loudly than they speak, and that generosity gives this collection its distinctively heart-felt edges–a tour de force of compassion.  –Cole Swensen, author of And And And, long-listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize

“Linda Watanabe McFerrin can seemingly do anything and has now gifted us with the valentine we so desperately need. A bloody reminder that despite life’s manifold horrors and disappointments, love remains on this dying Earth. A fragile possibility perhaps, but still attainable somehow despite our doomsday hearts.” –Richard Peabody, editor, Gargoyle Magazine

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About the author

Linda Watanabe McFerrin is a poet, travel writer, novelist and longtime contributor to numerous newspapers, magazines and anthologies. She is the author of two poetry collections, past editor of a popular Northern California guidebook and a winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction.

Her novel, Namako: Sea Cucumber, was named Best Book for the Teen-Age by the New York Public Library. In addition to authoring an award-winning short story collection, The Hand of Buddha, she has co-edited twelve anthologies, including the Hot Flashes: sexy little stories & poems series. Her latest novel, Dead Love (Stone Bridge Press, 2009), was a Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in a Novel.

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