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Voices from the Castle Dungeon
Author:
Rosa Maria DelVecchio
Binding: Paperback
(pp: 76) ISBN: 978-81-8253-150-5 Availability: In Stock
(Ships within 1 to 2
days) Publisher: Cyberwit.net Pub. Date:
2009 Condition: New
Description:
From gothic chiller to love poem, VOICES
from the Castle Dungeon is a collection of
free verse poetry that proposes a fine line exists
between emotional discord and spiritual serenity.
To this end, Rosa Maria DelVecchio creates
a diversity of personae who collectively
complement one another.
There is the persona of woman as victim in
“The Empty Mansion,” the uncompromising lady
in “The Craving,” and the widow who wails
tenderly in “Life Love.”
The voice of the narcissistic gentleman
player in “Be My Wife” is juxtaposed with that
of the alpha male in “Lion Queen’s Prayer”
as well as that of the spiritual guardian in
“Gargoyles.”
A variety of maternal figures speak out in
poems such as “Devil’s Advocate” and “Love
Maternal.” Equal
voice is given to a myriad of child personae from
the surviving adult girl of family dysfunction in
the “Recurrent Nightmare” prose poems to the
untouched innocent of poems such as “Wine
Grapes” and “Passage to
America
.” Beginning
with the cryptic language of “Stone Façade”
and ending with the concise syntax of “The Dark
Ages,” this collection is framed by
DelVecchio’s range of poetic style and offered
to readers in the spirit of literary recreation.
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___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 Rosa
Maria DelVecchio lives in
Brooklyn,
Ohio, and makes her living as a law school
administrative secretary at
Cleveland
State
University, where she wrote a master’s thesis on Chaucer
in 1984. She
wrote a dissertation on Edgar Allan Poe and
received a Ph.D. in English from
Case
Western Reserve
University
in 1993. Formerly
a freshman English teacher at her alma maters,
DelVecchio has had poetry published in several
creative writing journals and magazines since
1987, and some of her more recent poems are
forthcoming in FreeXpression Magazine in
Australia
. She
received first prize in a quarterly poetry contest
in 1989 by Wide Open Press in
Santa Rosa
,
California. Under
the pseudonym Alexander Lambros, DelVecchio
received a top ten quarterly Award for Excellence
in 1992 from the Bay Area Poets Coalition in
Berkeley
,
California. The
winning poems, “First Love Poem” and “Be My
Wife” respectively, are included in this
collection.
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