 | Dance From Inside My Bones (poems, 2007,
Snake Nation Press) $15 | Nominated for
the National Book Award Praise for Dance From Inside My Bones
by Lana Hechtman Ayers
“A book of stunning poems…Warm and witty, revelatory and mysterious, it's a book of charm and talent—readable and rereadable page after page.”
—F. D. Reeve
“…an achingly honest book. These poems are vibrant, bold, courageous, open-hearted and direct.” —Irene Willis | |  | Love is a Weed (chapbook, 2006, Finishing Line Press) $10 | Praise for Love is a Weed by Lana Hechtman Ayers
“I can think only of a very few poets who are able to bring life on a page with a sensibility that is both explosive and insightful, erotic and, yes, laugh-out-loud funny, in the way Lana Hechtman Ayers’s poems are in Love is a Weed.” —Ilya Kaminsky “Love in these sensuous poems is both heady and difficult. What I love most: the humor, the passion, the seriousness beneath—and the glow of the poet's incandescent heart.” —Patricia Fargnoli
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|  | Chicken Farmer
I Still Love You (poems, 2007, D-N Publishing) $14 | Winner of D-N Publishing National Manuscript Award Praise for Chicken Farmer I Still Love You
by Lana Hechtman Ayers
“Lana Hechtman Ayers challenges her readers on many levels, starting with the command to 'dare your heart into words.' This poet finds texts everywhere, from graffiti on a granite boulder to a diner’s menu. Ayers’ book, Chicken Farmer I Still Love You, is honest and fearless and offers us delicious servings of an ignored America.”
—Rane Arroyo
“Some poems in this notable new collection by Lana Hechtman Ayers engage their smart-alecky, fast-talking characters with energy and spirit, taking on the Hollywood myths, from Bogart to Bugs Bunny, by which Americans live their lives. In this hard-edged ethos, the poet realizes, we may root for the charming, heartless, take-all winners, until we discover that we may be among the vast legion of losers. Some poems here are forays into pure craft—a 'Sestina' that expansively glosses Elizabeth Bishop's of the same name and employs some of the same end words. Like life itself, the comic and serious unfolding of Chicken Farmer I Still Love You reflects a delightfully spirited work.”
—Carolyne Wright | |
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