Poetry. "Here, from first verse to last, is a poetry of the heart. But don't expect the pleading, defensive heart of confessional verse or the nostalgic, self-involved heart of romance. The heart in SILENT TYPE is a stubborn, insistent, relentlessly defiant interlocutor, a 'bastard of a thing' to be wrested from the self and wrestled into form. And what living, breathing, bleeding, unforgettable forms DeCesare repeatedly achieves. This is a book to be lived with and wrestledwith and cherished"--David Shirley.

Author City: Dallastown, PA USA

Barbara DeCesare lives in Dallastown, Pennsylvania, with her three teenagers and her beau. She is the author of jigsaweyesore (Anti-Man Press, 1999), Adrift (Seventh Wave, 2006) and SILENT TYP8 (Paper Kite Press, 2008). Her work has been adapted for stage, song and film, and published in such notable literary journals Tarpaulin Sky, Gargoyle, Poetry, Alaska Quarterly Review, Oyez, and Evansville Review. She is a potty mouth and apologizes in advance.