My Coney Island by Susan E. Oringel

My Coney Island by Susan E. Oringel

$14.99

 

Coney Island is not only a vividly evoked place, but a history of the country and of a family. Issues of immigration, assimilation, and belonging thread subtly but clearly through these poems; the public and the personal inter- twine. Astutely, Oringel finds in the carnival rides and parades, the drag and burlesque queens and freak shows “places where old morality gave way….” and sees too the oceanfront as a place of escape from daily hard work, and “from what was, is, surely waiting.” Through the lives of struggle and dreams of a better future, Oringel’s empathetic gift finds “the will, indomitable,” in her mother in “La Vie en Gris,” and prays for the same in “poor everybody,” in the poem of that title. These are rich, sustaining poems.

–Joan Aleshire

 

 

 

 

 

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My Coney Island

by Susan E. Oringel

$14.99, paper

978-1-63534-946-7

2019

Susan E. Oringel is a poet and writer, a teacher of creative writing, and a psychologist in private practice in the New York Capital District. She has published in various literary journals and has also served as co-translator of a collection of Latin American poetry: Messengers of Rain, published by Groundwoods Press, 2002, 2011. Her chapbook manuscripts How The Body and My Coney Island were finalists in the Slapering Hol’ Press contest, 1997 and 2017 competitions.  Fellowships and awards include Individual Artist award from the Albany-Schenectady League of Arts, a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, and an SOS award sponsored by the New York State Council of the Arts.

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