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Aluminum Balloons
by Rita Riddle
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- Dedicated to “the mothers and wives who have been silenced
by domestic
trauma -- and for their children” Aluminum Balloons is a
powerful
collection of poems that express negative life experiences —
a child’s
attempted suicide, an unfaithful husband, an insensitive
daughter, sex
without tenderness — that happen to far too many women in
the world.
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- “These poems are edgy and nervous and angry — as they
should be.”
Richard Hague.
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- Read Aluminum Balloons “and know you have
journeyed
into a sparse and honest testimony of one whose words are
tough and
tender, coming from survival” -- Clyde Kessler
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- Excerpt from “Too Many Widows on Sandy Ridge”:
By the time my parents died,
I’d been married long enough to fear
another kind of widow: man-less
woman singled by divorce, left alone
to pay the bills, cut out the lights.
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- ISBN 978-0-936015-65-1
- vi + 38 pages, 5 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 inches, paperbound
- $5.50
plus shipping, per copy
- US shipping and handling -
$5.00, add
$.50 for
each additional book
- International shipping and handling -
$15.00
for Priority Mail International
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