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Book Details
More Fun Than Pretty
by Tony Magistrale – copyright 2021
ISBN 978-1-7340020-6-5
Art by Michael Strauss
$18.00
Reviews for More Fun Than Pretty
by Elizabeth Powell, Editor, Green Mountains Review
...Join this wise, funny, imaginative, truth telling poet on a journey through the world where the everyday is art, where we are all part of a greater cause: how to love one another, how to be.
by Alexis Rhone Fancher, poetry editor of Cultural Daily
...The poems in MORE FUN THAN PRETTY have a knack for putting the reader at ease, then slamming us against a wall. Add a soupcon of parental disappointment, a cupful of repentance, and a devious wit and you've got the makings of a dazzling collection.
Sample from More Fun Than Pretty
Moving Out
Thirty-three years later and what you recall
is partial truth, which is the way
all of us remember the sticky web of childhood,
selectively. Someone needs to sit you down
beyond the reach of your current psychotherapist
to inform you that life never untwists elegantly
at any age, and that the past is a two-sided coin
as likely to flip its dark Janus face
as the other side. You suffered. No one
claws their way out of adolescence without broken bones
and promises. You also survived and thrived.
You have the rest of your life
to dredge up that time so long ago
and assign it proportions. You are an adult now,
you pack your own suitcase.
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