A Route Obscure and Lonely
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Elgin Award Winning Poetry Collection!Haunting and harrowing in its portrayal of supernatural creatures, "A Route Obscure and Lonely" explores the road less traveled by restless ghosts, sexually curious aliens, cunning vampires, transgressive angels, regretful mermaids, defiant witches, surly goddesses, mysterious phantoms, fearless fortune tellers, and "goth's Mr. Goodbar" himself - - Edgar Allan Poe. The boroughs of the dead invite you to approach the gate guarding their abyss. Come look inside. www.WapshottPress.orgLindaAnn LoSchiavo is a dramatist, author, theatre critic, speaker, and formalist. Recently, her poems won competitions judged by Inkwell Literary Magazine [May 2019], Brink Literacy Project / Dually Noted [March 2019] and Wax Poetry & Arts [2018].Her formal verse has been seen in Allegro Poetry, The Cape Rock, Chronogram, Duck Lake Journal, The Healing Muse, Heart of Flesh, Ink & Letters, Italian Americana, Measure, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Mused, Not Very Quiet, Owen Wister Review, Panoplyzine, Peacock Journal, Peregrine, PIF, Portrait of New England, Reality Break Press, Red Wolf Journal, Rue Scribe, St. Katherine Literary Review, The Good Men Project, White Wall Review, Windhover, World's Best Poems, and elsewhere.Her poetry chapbooks "Conflicted Excitement" [Red Wolf Editions, 2018] and "Concupiscent Consumption" [Red Ferret Press, 2020] along with her collaborative book on prejudice [Macmillan in the USA, Aracne Editions in Italy] are her latest titles.Ms. LoSchiavo is a Lifetime Member of The Dramatists Guild of America. Her plays have been staged in NYC; San Francisco; Melbourne, Australia, etc. Her theatre reviews appear in L'Idea Magazine and elsewhere.Her short story "On Cemetery Hill" was translated into Russian for Night Picnic [February 2019]. Her SFF fiction has earned two Honorable Mentions from Writers of the Future. Her two documentaries on Texas Guinan along with her Mae West Blog and stage plays about Mae West have brought her to the attention of PBS' American Masters series, where she is a featured speaker in a biographical film that will be broadcast shortly.
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From the relationships of the Gods, to chance encounters with the supernatural, A Route Obscure and Lonely will take readers on fantastical journeys. The sheer diversity between poems shows that LindaAnn LoSchiavo is a talented writer. And the diversity doesn't end with just the stories being told. This collection of poems comes in all forms and styles. There is sure to be a poem for everyone.
Readers will be transported with LoSchiavo's beautiful imagery and word choice. Each and every poem in the collection has a story to tell. One of my favorites was “What's in the Shadows”. A short poem about being visited in the night by dark spirits. Each time they visit, they take little more away from you slowly bringing you to the end of your life. Another poem I enjoyed was “The Shoemaker Breaks His Silence”. This wonderful retelling of Cinderella where a shoemaker creates the glass slippers made me laugh. The grumpy shoemaker is more than willing to take money in exchange for making glass slippers, and he will complain about the entire experience.
I loved how this collection of poetry was focused on a wide range of emotions. Readers will be swept up in the throes of love just as easily as they will be drawn into the shadows. And fans of Edgar Allan Poe will see hints of his inspiration peppered throughout the poems. Including a poem all to his own where LoSchiavo explores the woman Poe wrote about.
A Route Obscure and Lonely is a versatile and engaging read. For readers who enjoy poetry, this is not one book you want to miss!