ECHOLALIA PRESS---GOOSEFLESH

GOOSEFLESH poetry by Emma Morgan

GOOSEFLESH

poetry by Emma Morgan
illustrations by Sudie Rakusin

53 pages, illustrated, photograph, soft cover

ISBN: 1-878533-06-1
Clothespin Fever Press 1993

Price $7.95

Distributed on the World Wide Web by Echolalia Press

GOOSEFLESH is the first collection of poems by author Emma Morgan, who came out of the closet both as a lesbian and a poet simultaneously ten years ago at the age of twenty-one. Her poetry deals both with universal themes of love, loss, sexuality, coming of age and human rights, as well as themes specific to Morgan's childhood and the personal beliefs and truths gleaned from there.

Published and reprinted in 1993, the book is out-of-print since Clothespin Fever Press closed its doors. All remaining copies are now available through Echolalia Press.

A SELECTION FROM GOOSEFLESH

The Words I Want

The words I want do not line up in rows
like obedient school children
They do not raise hands or wait turns
but barge in uninvited
out of breath and foaming at the mouth

The words I want track in mud and earth
and do not make excuses
or clean up after themselves
They do not exit discreetly
but leave holes in walls and stains

The words I want sweat
moan, bleed, spit, get down
and do not give birth immaculately

--- (c) 1993 Emma Morgan

WHAT THE CRITICS SAY
ABOUT GOOSEFLESH
"Emma Morgan's first book is not one that will wait quietly in the wings -- her poetry wants to 'barge in uninvited.' The images and the stories from women's lives that are told here will grab the unsuspecting reader. Don't resist!"

---Judith McDaniel
author of METAMORPHOSIS:
Reflections on Recovery
and, JUST SAY YES

"Emma Morgan's poetry is exquisitely crafted, raw and gut-wrenching. It's the kind of poetry you marvel at, thinking how brave it is of her to expose herself on paper like that. But this is before you realize it is the only way she could write."

---Julie Blackwomon
author of REVOLUTIONARY
BLUES AND OTHER FEVERS

"Here is a poet with a distinct voice who succeeds in combining lyric grace with elegant and powerful images. For example:

"I went walking down the street
straight into the lack of you
It left your impression
in gooseflesh on my skin
Now I shudder when the wind blows"

Additionally, her 5-page poem, 'New Year's Revolution: a Rosh Hashanah Chronology' is wonderfully innovative."

--A. Molloy

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