Archive - December 4, 2024

Blue Yodel by Eleanor Stanford (Cape Verde 1998-2000) (poetry) Carnegie Mellon University Press 80 pages October 2024 $20 (Paperback) on Amazon       A new poetry collection from Eleanor Stanford that is musical, sexy, and darkly funny. These poems take the reader from Mexico City to West Philadelphia to Karachi. The works wade into the difficult joys of mothering, self-exploration, and romantic entanglement in midlife. Throughout, Eleanor Stanford embraces the mysticism of Hildegard of Bingen, the abjection of Tammy Wynette, and the wry self-appraisal of Sylvia Plath, fashioning it all into something entirely its own. Eleanor is the author of three previous books of poetry from Carnegie Mellon University Press, most recently The Imaginal Marriage. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Iowa Review, and Poetry, among many others. She lives in Pennsylvania.