Dialect of a Skirt (signed copy)

Poetry. (This copy is signed by the author.)

Published by Hanging Loose Press, 2010

88 pages

"These aren't poems. They're ball gowns"

--Rachel McKibbens.

"Wouldn't you like to know what happened when Marilyn Monroe made love to Joan Crawford? (Hint: a webbed foot was involved.) Why holy is a secular world? What Barrack Obama's grandmother thought? What the poet said to the truck driver? And why a fourteen-year-old girl would throw her newborn out a window? In Erica's impressive collection we hear a myriad of characters speak--some hilarious, some ironic, some tragic--and we can't help but listen. And learn"

--Sharon Mesmer.