Immortal Medusa

Poetry. Women's Studies. Jewish Studies. Always original, intelligent, hilarious, Ungar serves us another chapter in the on- going saga of life-on- Earth. Her deft and inventive mixtures of science, family, history, pop-culture, philosophy, and art keep the reader swimming deeper and deeper into the human experience, amazed at the landmarks both familiar and surprising.

This poetry collection is like a bowl of fruit and cream: it's so delicious, and it all goes down so easily, that you forget how much nutrition is there.--Kirkus, starred review

A very elegiac mood courses through these lines, enlivening them with wisdom. Like any great seeker, Ungar pursues the truth beneath surfaces available to the naked eye. Reading these poems, we are seized by the worlds she reveals. It is the feeling we call ravishment.--Greg Pardlo

Ungar paints unforgettable images--water-spider shoes, sepia knickers and a shining white shirt, the near-endangered Waccamaw fatmucket and Ozark hellbender--that leave us 'chanting to the sky' then diving to see what we 'can retrieve / from the deep floor where / pearls are formed in secret.'--Meg Kearney

Author: Barbara Louise Ungar
Publisher: Word Works
Published: 01/30/2015
Pages: 98
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d
ISBN: 9780915380930

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2015
Kirkus Best Indie Books 12/15/2015 pg. 51

About the Author
Ungar, Barbara Louise: - Barbara Ungar is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: IMMORTAL MEDUSA (The Word Works, 2015); CHARLOTTE BRONTË, YOU RUINED MY LIFE (The Word Works, 2011), selected by Denise Duhamel for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection in 2010; Thrift; and The Origin of the Milky Way, which won the Gival Press Poetry Award, a Silver Independent Publishers' Award, a Hoffer Award, and the Adirondack Center for Writing Poetry Award. She is the author of the chapbooks Sequel and Neoclassical Barbra, as well as Haiku in English. She has published poems in many journals such as Rattle, Salmagundi, and The Nervous Breakdown. A professor of English at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, she directs the MFA program there.

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