Black Jack Judy and the Crisco Kids: Bronx Memories, by Alexis Rotella, Published by MET Press
DATE: May 1, 2010 PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release
Black Jack Judy and the Crisco Kids: Bronx Memories, by Alexis Rotella is a memorable work that evokes a potent sense of time and place, another world, long gone. This is a must read for Rotella fans and for all lovers of fine poetry.
Baltimore, Maryland – May 1, 2010 – Black Jack Judy and the Crisco Kids: Bronx Memories, by Alexis Rotella, has been published as a trade paperback by MET Press of Baltimore, Maryland. It is the latest in a series of fine collections of Rotella’s verse published by MET Press. In a bravura performance, Rotella adopts her husband’s voice to write his "autobiography" in verse. This memorable work evokes a potent sense of time and place, another world, long gone. This is a must read for Rotella fans and for all lovers of fine poetry.
Critical Comment about Black Jack Judy and the Crisco Kids:
"In Black Jack Judy and the Crisco Kids, Alexis Rotella writes her husband's autobiography as if she had lived it herself. Replete with moments both magical and tragic, she provides a portrait of Italian American life at a time when there were still small farms in New York City, Italians were discriminated against, mothers plotted marriage, and all manner of relatives, friends, neighbors, and coworkers might appear at the dinner table. Each moment is rendered in tanka or kyoka, and occasionally prose or senryu. A piece of broken mirror the shape of Sicily, the curls from a little boy's haircut, a Christmas pizza with a star made of anchovies, and many other details paint a vivid picture of life long ago in a fairy tale country called the Bronx." —M. Kei, editor of Atlas Poetica: A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka
About the Author:
Alexis Rotella is a well known poet who writes in many genres and who has published in hundreds of journals. A number of her haiga exhibits may be viewed at haiga online, ink sweat and tears, Simply Haiku, 3Lights Gallery and Modern Haiga. Rotella edited Prune Juice, a journal of senryu and kyoka. Her latest books from Modern English Tanka Press include Elvis in Black Leather, Lip Prints, Ouch and Eavesdropping. Check out Alexis Rotella’s blog at
www.alexisrotella.com and see her readings on YouTube.
For media inquiries or to arrange an interview with the author, contact Alexis Rotella by e-mail
at
akrotella@gmail.com Publisher information at: www.themetpress.com.
This book is available from
www.Lulu.com/modernenglishtanka. Information is available online at www.themetpress.com Price: $12.95 USD. ISBN 978-1-935398-18-9. Trade paperback. 108 pages, 6" x 9", perfect binding, 60# cream interior paper, black and white interior ink, 100# exterior paper, full-color exterior ink.
About MET Press:
MET Press (Modern English Tanka Press) is an independent publishing house in Baltimore, Maryland, dedicated to producing work of lasting literary value, especially fine verse. A family business, we treat our customers and partners in publishing like family. We use modern print-on-demand production and distribution methods. Our special mission is to promote the tanka form of poetry and to educate newcomers about this most ancient poetic form.
Contact: Denis M. Garrison, owner, MET Press / Modern English Tanka Press,
443-559-2776, Email to
dmg@themetpress.com www.themetpress.com
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