Reseña del libro "One Hot Day, poetry (en Inglés)"
Revised Edition: LukivPress (Canada), 2022. Previously published as Her Story, a collection (Poetry of the People, USA, 2003). An excerpt The Kitten A blonde girlExhales mistInto the night.Her eyelashes are wet;She wipes her cheeks dry, But she wears no makeup: She is too young for that. She calls againInto every dark space, Tree, and bush, Into every moleculeFor her kitten. A car rattles past; Her brother should not haveLeft the porch door openThree nights ago! She bites down hard.Her mother, At the kitchen window, Shrugs her shouldersAnd smiles betweenPeach-coloured curtains. The blonde girl calls out, More weakly, Under the yet-barrenMountain ashAnd along the mucky trailThat weaves betweenPussy willowsTo the lane. At the lane she turns toGlance at the roof, Searching for a kitten-silhouetteIn moonlight. She ignores her mother'sFrown, And later, she criesHerself to sleepIn her hard bed;She bites down oftenAnd snores. In the morningShe glares at herselfIn the mirror.She locks the bathroom door, Shutting out her brother, Her mother, too. Today she will wearMascara, Even if her brother laughsOr her mother disapproves. She is unskilledWith the little brush.Her hand shakes, But she is a determinedYoung ladyToday. The author Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).
