Book Release Party for Sarah Sarai's Geographies of Soul and Taffeta

Join me for the release party for Geographies of Soul and Taffeta, Sunday, May 1, 2016, 5 to 7 p.m., Zinc Bar, 82 West Third Street, New York, New York. 

Guest Readers: Jane Ormerod, publisher (great weather for MEDIA) and poet; Jee Leong Koh, publisher and poet (Financial Times best book 2015). & Tony Dohr - series host!

Jane Ormerod, a knockout, as always

Jee Leong Koh, dashing of demeanor

Tony Dohr, Zinc Bar series host & fan of the six-legged

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Review: The Future Is Happy: "cheerful without being nauseating"

Here's the second review of The Future Is Happy. This one by poet Jee Leong Koh. His blog "Song of a Reformed Headhunter" offers a rich repository of poetry, art and music reviews, with insights into being and existence.

Sarah Sarai's "The Future Is Happy"
If a poet can be cheerful without being nauseating, Sarah Sarai is she. Her optimism is undergirt by a restless intelligence, a hardheadedness about the world, and a willingness to be vulnerable. She hears happiness in a tenor sax and hipness in Count Basie's Band. Music buoys her sufficiently to dance and sing:

There's no foot in the grave, only the dead.
Swing time. Bebop. If you need more, I can't help you.
(from "The Future Is Happy")

to read the rest of the review, go to:

http://jeeleong.blogspot.com/2009/12/sarah-sarais-future-is-happy.html