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A Food Court in Hell contains poems for the slow-motion apocalypse. With the stars as not-so-silent witnesses, awareness and resignation vie with hope, rumination, and celebration. These poems are a letter to the universe, a reminder that this world is worth saving. Herein, mythology and fairy tales, art and artifacts, natural and manmade wonders, pop culture and mysticism all converge, on the teetering edge of the dying American empire.
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These 64 poems are divided into two sections, Sorrows and Sweetness. These poems are very personal and intimate, yet firmly grounded in the real world. They cover such topics as Latine culture, family, feminism, home, memory, health, food, and cats. Overall, this book is a celebration of life in both grief and joy.
In Moonlight and Monsters the poems move between wonder and
fairy-tale, earth and sky, fire and things that go bump in the night.
Scharhag has given birth to wondrous monsters and dances with fearful
delight in the moonlight. These poems entrance and wrap you up. Open the
pages and enter a world of Lauren’s creation. You will want to stay
awhile. (Nominated for an Elgin Award.)
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A chapbook of nature and environmentalist poems.
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Seven years later, Lauren Scharhag delivers this follow-up to her debut
collection, West Side Girl & Other Poems. Again, she focuses on family,
femininity, and Latinx identity, as well as bodies, illness, and caregiving.
These poems come from a more mature perspective, exploring what it's like
straddling divides white and non-white, American and foreign-born, healthy and
unhealthy, middle-class and barely scraping by. Most of all, these poems
explore what we inherit and what we leave behind.
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High Water Lines is a swan song for the American dream,
where the notion persists that anyone can still pull themselves up by the
bootstraps to escape poverty. This is a collection of poems for the working
poor, especially those that dwell in the places deemed “flyover country.” These
poems are for anyone who has ever had to pick up and move to chase a job or
escape eviction, for anyone who has ever had to punch a time clock or bust
their hump for a measly tip, for anyone seeking a better life in another
country, for anyone who is one emergency away from homelessness.
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This is the universe we inhabit: a universe that has
produced both David Bowie and James Baldwin, Klingons, Publisher’s
Clearinghouse sweepstakes, E.T., and Garbage Pail Kids. We coexist alongside
goddesses, meteors, parolees, anorexics, acid attack victims, refugees,
circuses, reservation casinos, fantastic beasts, and a dwindling water supply.
In REQUIEM FOR A ROBOT DOG, Lauren Scharhag considers the existence of angels
and aliens equally plausible. She explores the dawn of the third millennium
with all its darkness and light, bringing both the mythical and the mundane
under her lens. Technology is both our bane and our solace, the conduit for
human connection and facilitator of further alienation. Sure, there’s poverty,
disease, and the bees are all dying, but there is also love, loyalty, and
compassion, even if it comes in the form of a robotic canine. So come trip the
rift. Find God. Find hope. And say a prayer for the dearly departed. Published by Cajun Mutt Press.
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In these poems written from 2005-2013, I explore themes of womanhood, family and my Mexican-German heritage.
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