What The Truth Tastes Like by Martha Silano

Martha Silano's new e-book What the reality Tastes Like, (Two Sylvias Press, 2015) is a moment version of her unique, award-winning assortment released in 1999. This revised e-book contains twenty new poems, a Foreword through David Kirby, and an Afterword by way of Martha Silano.

Praise for What the reality Tastes Like:

From clear-eyed recognition to the standard international, Martha Silano makes poems that educate, startle, and provides excitement as just a nice poem can. –David Kirby

Martha Silano finds that she invented the without end grieving Linzer torte and the self-effervescing catbox lid and that i think her. Her poems are packed with reliable stuff—sausages and Oklahoma villages and goals of parrots. even if love has long past bitter and the sweetheart has long gone south, the strength and inventiveness by no means flag. we all know she'll be correct again, delivering extra honest tastes. Take a major chunk, this can be a robust first serving. –Robert Hershon

Martha Silano writes with wit and intelligence, and she or he is both at domestic naming the birds on a seashore and the arcana of the telephone book. it's her love of language that distinguishes those poems and makes them so filled with startling information, and this not just on the point of the observe, but in addition within the syntax, which unearths the mind's continuous strategy and avoidance of its emotional domestic. –Alison Hawthorne Deming

The fact tastes like those succulent poems. Their refrains will shape in your lips and ring on your middle. In those wealthy, elegant--and wickedly witty--pieces, Martha Silano has captured the rhythms that percolate, unheard through the remainder of us, simply underneath the outside of way of life. –Laura Kalpakian