Strong. Female. Character

by Rose McAleese

Overview

The Irish aren’t the only poets; just the only poets who matter. Fortunately, Irish attitude comes in all colors, sizes, genders and nationalities. While carrying the entire spectrum of a hundred turbulent peoples draped across the bones of her verse, Rose McAleese remains neither intimidated nor embittered by her plunge into constant future unknowns.

This book by renowned spoken word poet marks McAleese’s graceful, first-time assent to the freezing of her kinetic verbal images into tomorrow’s bookshelf treasure. No young American poet more successfully balances naiveté against experience, transmutes cynicism with tinctures of romance, or armors her own tenderness with learned ferocity.

Strong. Female. Character. is recommended reading for earnest girls, cynical young women, wise crones and all men of emotional courage.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015592535
Publisher:	Litsam, Inc.
Publication date:	08/12/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	76
File size:	362 KB

About the Author

Rose McAleese began writing poetry before she actually knew how to write, filling dozens of notebooks with her indecipherable scrawl. Her penmanship and spelling eventually improved and she was named Individual Youth Slam Poet in 2007 and 2008, and was a member of the Seattle Youth Slam Poetry Team that competed at Brave New Voices National Poetry Slams in 2007, 2008, and 2009. She also competed on the University of Washington poetry team at the 2010 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational, where she was nominated Best Female Poet. She was a member of the 2011 Seattle Adult Poetry Slam team and was named “Rookie of the Year,” an honor she found both flattering and funny. In 2012 she represented Seattle at the Women of the World Poetry Slam.

Editorial Reviews

These poems hearken back to ancient traditions, to a time (pre-Gutenberg) when spoken poetry would regularly illuminate large audiences, as well as the poet herself.

Tom Robbins

Rose McAleese is to poetry what MC Lyte is to rap: a wicked lyricist whose poems embody the feminine and hardcore. I trust McAleese not to sugarcoat, in fact, I depend on it. In a world where too many women are concerned with playing a man's game, McAleese steps up and vows she will never resort to such tactics, promising us a daughter who will "bite the end of words like she’s running out of breath."

Rachel McKibbens

I'm on a NASA shuttle falling back toward Earth and a woman astronaut, dressed in a space suit made of brass, is getting it all off her chest before splash down, everything she's thought or dreamed, tumbling out of her in a heady, hypnotic stream. That's how I feel reading Rose McAleese's book full of odes, letters, rants and rites. It's a thrilling ride.

Karen Finneyfrock