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Book SynopsisTalking Pillow celebrates love as amazement, sustenance, and the progenitor of scarce-believable loss. Imagining themselves into multiple times, places, and lives, the poems comically explore the possibilities of attachment between people and the absurdity of death’s sudden intrusion.
Trade ReviewTalking Pillow is as intimate as a dream. In mourning her losses, the poet turns them into a new morning of the imagination peopled by a beloved companion and a cast including agents from the TSA and the FBI, Lon Chaney, Robert Frost, a young benefactor, and the glorious ghost of Anna Akhmatova."" - David Lehman
""Some poetry gives us a place to put away carefully what comes of living. All through
Talking Pillow we get to know Angela Ball’s stories of life, love, death, passion, grief, stamina and perseverance; we get to know her passion for words, ‘faint patronymics of gaud’
, and we get to understand what mysterious life can do. When she says something is like ‘swimming for the first time/underwater’
, we feel how true that is, how good it can be to be understood."" - Dara Wier
