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~ Michel de Montaigne
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A novel and daring, yet, complexly dreamy woman possessing an intuitive crossbreed of romance and nonconformity, Heather Angelika Dooley has been writing anthems of love-and-war as long as she has known the alphabet. Her poetry is naked and identifiable. Each work synchronizes the contusion of a broken heart and, yet, each has a hauntingly kindhearted verve that makes you want to understand such sense of self, or know this fresh and clever writer for yourself.
Heather Angelika is now a freelance artist with a myriad of fortes and faces. After years as a scenic artist, dancer, model, and deejay, Heather Angelika now lives in the Old South, with her daughter, philosophizing her memoirs into a story of your life. She's a poet bound to be a clairvoyant for the era and, even still, remains clandestine and modest in hers. She spends most of her time in coffee houses with her journals and laptop that has worn off lettering on the keypad. Heather Angelika's first love affair was with words, without breaking up with words, she began another affair with metaphors. Now her nucleus of symbolisms will become your new adages.
Fans of her poetry had these things to say about her writing:
"A great ebbtide of humble prose did she grace this world with unselfishly."
"Just when your readers think you have reached your plateau, you write something like this book. Mucho Grande Props!"
"Imagine poetry slam at half-speed, slowed down enough for the rest of us to contemplate and quietly hear her side of the story."
"You make all other that come before you look like infidels. I see great things coming your way. Thanks again for sharing your talent!"
"You have always been able to stir the deepest of emotions in your readers, and that is the trademark of a good poet."
"You’re a person that knows how to cheer people up, but does not have to. Your kindness is beyond good will! Your loyal subject...."
"First-class wit and superb wisdom. This is a book of philosophy on placement and existence. This has a strong voice that screams with poetic vigor. Oh, my God! You hit all the high notes. I have to say I simply love it. A tour de force, indeed."
"That shows us that you're not just a writer writing for the sake of writing itself; you're a writer who uses your abilities to fictionalize actuality to the point that we have to step back and quiz ourselves. That's talent, Heather."
"Congrats on another in a long line of impressive work. It's almost like there is no stopping you. If you keep this up, other poets are going to get jealous!"
"I almost want to get a stick and poke the wound to make it hurt to hurt (him) because he hurt you.(I've never protected someone else in a poem before) I love the way you use so many metaphors and intertwine them together like gauze and blood... Oh- and you have the image of salt mixed in the wound. Ouch.'
"I want to use words like: defiant, poignant, confessional, and confrontational."
"You are always doing these clever things in your work, these little secret codes and subliminal messages. Always thought-provoking and yes, certainly witty, I love your 'hep wit', and how you can say what you want to say without giving a damn the consequence. So fiesty. So real. I love you! You're just BRILLIANT."
"Hands that join...Being so thin... You take things to the next level! I like the way words flow from your mind and are set to parchment!"
"Your way with words is something to behold with beauty."
"It is about being in the moment with love and heartache, and that uneasy feeling when troubled ghosts from the past catch up the present."
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Title:
"Don't Rub Salt in the Heartbreak"
Release Date: February/March of 2007!
ISBN# 978-0-9789386-5-9 pp. 84
Publisher: Lucy Rose Publishing, LLC
Marlow Taylor
Editor: La Verne Taylor
Dust Jacket/Cover Art: Kim Paradiso - design_femme
Web Design: Wrecked Design
Author Bio Artwork: Daniel Hyun Lim - cafepress.com/daniel_hyun_lim
Synopsis:
Don’t Rub Salt in the Heartbreak by Heather Angelika Dooley is a treasure trove of poetry about letting go of constants and the growing pains of womanhood. This is a book about how true love can make even the wisest of people learning impaired when it comes to the heart. This is written artwork by a literary artist who is lovesick about music, nature, parenthood, philosophy, psychology, and her soul mate who rubbed salt in her heartbreak. Heather Angelika Dooley plays with words like a Magnus—she casts a spell on you through her spellbinding way of spelling out your deepest cognitions. This book is a balladry of profoundness, pansophy, and yet utter unmasking of the soul. This poet gives all new meaning to: Wordsmith. You’ll believe her. You’ll feel her. You’ll fall in love with her command of language and sovereignty of symbolic skill. Beyond strength, this masterful metrical composition is true and the poet is a spirit of spirit.
Heather Angelika Dooley’s poetry is romantically raw, skinned, stripped, and even sanguinary at times. Yet, at the very same time, it is sweet-tempered, silver-toned in simile and metaphor, not to mention all-powerfully identifiable. This lyrical book will stir and impress you. It is dauntless and gutsy, all the while full of equally brave vulnerability and selfless confessions. There are so many open-handed tender spots within the body of this collection of work, as well as the author. Heather Angelika Dooley does not hold back for the sake of modesty, she humbly submits and admits her submissiveness to heartbreak. Within her lack of reserve reveals the grit and inner strength of true courage of heart. Just some of the things that Heather Angelika Dooley tries to resolve in Don’t Rub Salt in the Heartbreak are: toxic entanglements, the witch hunt for personal demons, a blind alley walked down by blinded love, the waking of hibernating dreams, the sublime saving grace of nature, and the foolhardiness of being a fool in love with a fool. No matter age, gender, race, or creed, realist, idealist, optimist, or pessimist, this book will grip you and stay with you in your heart and soul—love, heartbreak, and soul-searching are universal life inquisitions. The author, Heather Angelika Dooley, only asks that YOU, the reader, read this book with all of yours.
©2006
NOTE: Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States to authors. All of Heather Angelika Dooley's work has been legally copyrighted by the Library of Congress.
Previously Published Book(s):
Title:
He Said He Wanted to Die with Me Now I Don't Even Have His Phone Number
Bibliographic ..
Trade Paperback, 100 Pages, Be-Mused Publications, March 2004
Author:
Dooley, Heather Angelika
List Price:
$10.95
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Status:
Out of Print
ISBN:
0974076309
Subject:
Poetry : General