My time has finally arrived!!! This morning I received a phone call from Deerbrook Editions saying they are about to mail me a publishing contract for my full-length poetry manuscript, No Passing Zone. It will be published sometime during the next two years.
And…, as often happens in life, my chapbook, “Certain,” has hit Finishinglinepress.com ’s website for preorders. We go through years of thinking we’re onto something as we create, but aren’t sure anyone else thinks so and then, poof, we’re recognized all at once. At least, that is the hope. I’ve waited a long time and am grateful for whatever comes my way. So here’s the scoop, Finishing Line Press doesn’t have a lot of funds and will determine my pressrun by the amount of books I pre-sell.
If you would like to purchase a copy of “Certain,” please go to Finishinglinepress.com and click on “Preorder Forthcoming Titles,” and scroll down to “Certain,” then click on the blue tab that says “Buy Now.” Thank you so much.
Here’s a preview of my endorsements:
A collection to savor, Donna Reis’s spirited, tender, droll, and haunted lyric poems spin an inverted fairy tale where lovers are middle-aged and battle-tough, but also burnished to a sheen reflecting compassion, tolerance, and a dry, enduring humor. Old enough to know life seldom unfolds as we expect–they have learned to love the unexpected and their compatible quirks; his “melancholy nostalgia,” her eye-rolling. They have learned to entertain and embrace ghosts, and to rescue each other with a mature, certain love. –April Ossmann, author of Anxious Music
Perhaps my favorite Donna, of the many wonderful Donnas in this new collection, writes: “There’s no use in stopping,” and makes it the first line of the collection. Or “There’s crazy Kate down / in the ruins forever building walls, / flying her blue-blooded flag / like a Keep Out sign, hoarding / matches, storing cans of gasoline,….” Or deftly structures a prose poem solely from the names of her beloved musician’s bands, called (what else?) “Tom’s Bands.” Tender, tough, funny, innocent, old soul, original: Donna Reis can’t help being good company. BE CERTAIN OF IT!
–Estha Weiner, author of Transfiguration Begins at Home
Thanks again for your friendship and support.
