Your Funny, Funny Face

Pat Barone’s new book of poetry, , illuminates the passages of a marriage and its many revelations of desire and mortality. In stunning language, Barone reflects on all the transformations we make as women, partners and mothers. Poignant and wise in the telling of her loss, we see sorrow as one more way to find tenderness and newly recognized wonder. There is a luminous harmony in this couples’ voices, but also honesty in their ‘backward forward dream’. This is a testament about how one makes a map together with a loved one. A truly beautiful book. Patricia Barone’s latest book, , Blue Light Press, is her fourth book, third collection of poetry. A previous collection, is from the same press. New Rivers Press published her first book of poetry, , and a novella, . Her poetry and short stories have appeared in anthologies such as , by Plume/Penguin, and by Tagore, Birmingham, England, as well as others from Peter Lang, Prentice Merrill, and Wising Up Press. Periodicals include , (Ireland), , and the . She has received a Loft-McKnight Award of Distinction in poetry, a Lake Superior Contemporary Writers Award for a short story, and a Minnesota State Arts Board Career Opportunity Grant for a workshop with the Irish poet Eavan Boland.