Revisiting the Porch
The Taste of Red-Orange
by Guinotte Wise
130 pps, $13 US
ISBN-13: 978-1-948920-33-9
From the author: “The Taste of Red-Orange” is my latest (5th) book of poetry, eighth book overall, and it was released January 2024. I designed the cover and back for this one, shot the art, and Sara Pence provided the finished art from that and the layouts I sent. I’ve already started another book titled “IRREGULAR,” which will be stuff I learned at my mother’s knee and other joints on the way to 100; thoughts, rants, observations, poems, essays, sanity tips, all bite-sized and in the form of a daily reader. It’ll be my ninth book if I can find a publisher. It’ll also contain cartoons, photos and art. It’s a labor of love and bad craziness, the latter being what David Ludwigs, a great photographer, called fun. We had some of that.
The red-orange stained popsicle sticks say “The Taste of Red-Orange” on the top one, and “Poems by Guinotte Wise” on the bottom one. I ate both popsicles in which these sticks were embedded. Some of the poems have appeared in quite fine reviews and journals including Rattle, Bond Street Review and Third Wednesday.
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