An Explosion of Toads
Annie O'Dell & Dene Hellman

An Explosion of Toads: A Celebration of Eccentricity reads like seventy-one poetic mini-novels on the out-of-the-ordinary people one can’t stop watching on the street.

An anguished wife dismembers her husband’s body; a bored couple worships their cat, Feng Shui “Century” farmers, ADD children, tarot readers, a pocket-change grocery shopper, hot steamy couples, packing house workers, victims of the storm, church ghosts, and passionate Nigerian Southern Baptists all tell their poetic stories. Ending sweetly, two loving, traveling friends of different races endure each other’s hair spray and snoring.

A quick, fascinating read in the time it takes to have a relaxed coffee break.

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There is nothing more wonderful then when a mother and daughter can forgive their past, and become good friends. This is a funny but provocative collection of Mother - Daughter poetry on wrinkles, Zen in a messy kitchen, big butts, to New Orleans Style funerals in red pointy boots.

After the death of Moms husband, a Holocaust survivor, we began pounding on our computer keys a tirade of poems on womanhood. Little did we know Grandma, from the "other side," was simultaneously clicking on the keys of her heavenly Sears & Roebuck typewriter, adding her celestial essence. Amongst poetry themes of best friends, facial scars, highway driving and work, are sarcastic gems on mini pads, malls, widowhood and bunyan removal. Even death brings humor as a scarlet plumed funeral horse bears mother's body in red pointy boots.

Grandmother carefully coaxed our poems back to function and practicality. For through all opinions, she felt, a woman's immortality is in the passing down of dinnerware, be it gourds, clay or china. This is a gift book all mature women can bond and share in; even those passed on.

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Softcover (70 pages)
6" x 9"

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