Red Rain
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Your breasts rise out
Of your dress
They remind me of
Christmas bulbs,
As glitter catches
The light
Your kiss oils the
Creaking door in
My throat my tongue
Is jump started
With a cigarette
You ask me
What color would
I be if I were a ghost
And I start laughing
Busting the pillow
Of my lungs
Feathers of air
Rise out of me
Flying like a flock
Of frightened
Birds.
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About the Book
Bill Garten's second book of poetry Red Rain, is really a continuation of Black Snow, his first book of poetry. Rich with images and thought provoking twists and turns, the reader will see how Bill is on a journey and he seems to be saying, "Come along with me" and this is where he takes you, to this foreign country of himself with its own special yet clear language. Like all his poems, Bill Garten can be understood through his poems and when you read them it is as if he is holding up a mirror, looking in it himself, and then he asks you to look in the same mirror with him simultaneously. The style of this book reminds us of other poets like James Tate and Donald Justice.
About the Author
Bill Garten is the winner of the Emerson Prize for Poetry and the Margaret Ward Martin Prize for Creative Writing. He has published in hundreds of literary magazines such as Rattle, Antietam Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Hawaii Review, Interim, Poet Lore, Red Rock Review, Chaminade Literary Review, Wisconsin Review and others. Bill is the author of three other books of poetry: Symptoms, Black Snow and Eventually, previously all published by Cork Hill Press and now AuthorHouse.
Bill has also been anthologized in Wild Sweet Notes, Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry 1950-1999; And Now The Magpie, a selection of winning entries of the West Virginia Writers' Annual Awards Competition and What The Mountains Yield, a collection from West Virginia Writers.
Bill has lived in West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, Virginia and Maryland. He is previously a college professor of English and Business and has taught numerous creative writing workshops. A graduate from Marietta College Bill lives in Hudson, Ohio when he is not traveling and giving poetry readings and teaching at creative writing workshops. His hobbies include swimming, hiking, snow skiing and fishing. His email address is redlol2@aol.com.