Venus Freezing
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AEGIS Tread carefully on this guarded heart buoyancy worn thin rubber-rot scarred. Shallow breaths in covert seasons, April showers transient levees breaching. Speak softly in her deafened drums spasmodic are the cadences of palpating heels and thumbs ... Dirty soles and dark souls dancing deeply, erratically. Plugging out the drudgery of strangers’ emphatic sounds. Move like liquid across her gaze glossy and cogent with each moment. As each passes glances spill pieces brimming heavy like lead stout and silent like aegis.
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About the Book
Venus Freezing is a rhythmic, tangoing of words — a lyrical anomaly of verse and hard-hitting imagery. The book’s title was inspired by the captivating ink and oil called Sine Cerere et Libero friget Venus (Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus Would Freeze, c. 1600 - 1603), which was created by the Dutch graphic artist and painter Hendrick Goltzius, c. 1558 - 1617. Much like in her initial collection, Bagging the Phoenix, the author writes from the perspective of rebirth. The author began writing the selections immediately after publishing her first collection. Venus Freezing comprises Congelata, Sanguine, Opera, and Intuito — four distinctive chapters that accompany a cautious, malleable heart through evident processes of growth. The brand new prose in Venus Freezing melds blunt-force candor with facetious humor to create a quick-witted read. Her interpretive verbiage continues to challenge the emotional psyche. Venus Freezing also provides a glimpse into the creative eye of the artist with thematic, illustrative elements throughout. The book features the author’s black and white, film-based photography.
About the Author
Gina Monari's poetic personality continues to evolve. Author of Bagging the Phoenix, published by iUniverse in 2007, Gina has been a business journalist for more than 8 years. She graduated Rider University in May 2001 with a double B.A. in Journalism/American Studies and with a minor in Women's Studies. Gina is a Libra and resides in New Jersey.