Classic Cocktails: Liquid Love Poems

By Genevieve Sourlie

Genevieve, a poet, and Sean, a bartender, wrote this literary affair between classic cocktails and love poemsan adventure into the romance and libertine spirit of classic cocktails, including fabulous recipes from the 1920s with modern variations. Hemingways advice to write drunk and edit sober describes their creative process as poems were written under the spirit of each drink.

The cocktails provide the metaphors for a poetic love story, giving the history, secrets, and mystique of each drink. What started as a single poem, using the martini as a metaphor for love and life, grew into a merger of many classic cocktails with the developing romance. Key social issues of the times were also swept along with it as the poems invite the reader along on their journey.

Classic Cocktails: Liquid Love Poems is a tribute to the slower styles of earlier times, linking classic cocktails with important issues such as liberty, freedom of choice, love between men and women as equals, and honoring previous generationsfor whom everyone should be grateful to as part of the evolution of the human species. These issues are still present in modern culture, and now more than ever people need poetry, romance, and spirituality in their lives.

With the quick pace of life and dependence on technology to communicate, people need to slow down and take time to get in touch with their natural selves; who we were before the social conditioning around survival, money, and materialism cemented people into false identities or stereotypical roles. Everyone needs time to just beto reconnect with ones spirit and allow creative urges and inspirations to express themselves freely.

This reconnection can truly be a spiritual journey to not only connect with our selves, but also with each other. Hemingway has a lot to say about this in the last poem, The Liberty Bell.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: Jan 15, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504300643

Genevieve Sourlie

Genevieve Sourile is a Chicagoan and an Australian. She has been educated by life and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Drama from Eastern Illinois University, and a PhD from the University of Queensland focusing on the erasure of women playwrights. She has lectured on these topics at length. Genevieve’s docudrama The Body Politic and poetry book A Change of Heart address healing after a trauma. She currently works as an acupuncturist, and is writing a novel on spirituality, reincarnation, near-death experiences, and healing after violence.

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Acknowledgements

All Classic Cocktails were made, consumed and love poems written at the Libertine Bar and Restaurant located in Brisbane, Australia. Thanks for being our Paris.

Genevieve and Sean would like to give a big thanks to all our friends at the Bar who helped shake drinks (especially the 12 minute Ramos Gin Fizz), listen to Genevieve read poems, and keep her in food so she could keep writing. Thanks to Tai for being the best Apprentice ever and helping us taste our drinks, to Czahn for the most awesome music playlist to make drinks and write poetry to—and special thanks from Genevieve to Simon for his encouragement to be a poet in the world.

We’d like to thank Nina Atkin for taking beautiful photos of us and the Classic Cocktails and who said: a fast shoot is a good shoot, when we were pressed for time. Thanks to Genevieve’s Artist Way group for their courageous artistic support and drinking all the cocktails made for the photo shoot.

A most hearty thanks to the healers who kept Genevieve’s body and soul together during the months of drinking many cocktails. Hats off to Dr Tom George, Kathy Uzsoki, Vicki Byatt, and special gratitude to Teena Angelia and Claudia Rodino for their vision and belief.

Thanks to my brilliant mentor and coach, Natalie Jayne Armstrong, you are my earth angel. Much appreciation to Alexa Codia and the team at Balboa Press for being so positive and efficient in their support.

Sean and Genevieve would also like to thank our family and friends who provided encouragement during our artistic and alcoholic adventure into the romance of Classic Cocktails. Genevieve began writing poetry at age 14 and her love affair with cocktails at age 18 (illegally) when her bosses used to buy her Vodka Gimlets and Screwdrivers at lunch, so special thanks gentlemen for your initiation.

Finally, heartfelt appreciation to the Muse and the spirit of Ernest Hemingway who helped us in more ways than we will ever know, we feel sure.

Genevieve Sourile and Sean Lowrey

October, 2015

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Liquid Love Poems

1.   Hemingway’s Daiquiri

2.   The Martini of Life

3.   The Blazer: El Fuego De L’Amour

4.   First You Make A Manhattan, Then We’ll Take Berlin*

5.   You Take the