Charlatan Mouth

By Xlibris US

Cat Sandwich Press Is pleased to present the return of a forgotten classic,
Thomasina Vales Charlatan Mouth


Praise for Charlatan Mouth:

With her stark examinations of female and male dynamics and evocative imagery, Thomasina Vale was light years ahead of her time. She was a sort of T.S. Eliot for the West, or better yet, an Emily Dickinson for Southern California.
-Geneva Howard-Everett
Professor of Feminine Studies
Acevedo University,
Sao Paulo, Brazil


Vale had a heart and sense of humor the size of her home state. Pretentious at times? Perhaps. Profoundly heartfelt? Without question. Her conveyance of emotion was profound. Her love of humanity shines through every line. One of the most preeminent explorers of the human heart of the last century
-Sarah Gilligan-Childe
Author of Kissing The Butterfly


This most mysterious and obscure of poets only becomes more prescient with time. Thank God for Cat Sandwich Press for revisiting this most valuable of volumes. It is essential for any student interested in 20th Century Poetry. Bravo!
-Calvin Jarkus
Author of Thomasina Vale:
One-liners and Heartache

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 16, 2014
• ISBN: 9781493198993

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Charlatan

Mouth

Thomasina Vale

Copyright © 2014 by Thomasina Vale.

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Rev. date: 04/11/2014

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CONTENTS

Part 1 Androgynous Zones

Window-Shopping In Hell

Window-Shopping In Hell

Reversal Of Gravity

Reversal Of Gravity

Lockjaw

Lockjaw

One-Liner Generating Apparatus

One-Liner Generating Apparatus

Lil Man In A Lil Box

Lil Man In a Lil Box

This Little Piggy

This Little Piggy

Pretty Animals

Pretty Animals

Jakarta

Jakarta

Part II Neo-American Prayer Patterns

I Sing To Thee

I SING TO THEE

March On To Zion

March On To Zion!

The Quality of light

The Quality Of Light

The Gatekeeper of the heart

The Gatekeeper Of The Heart

How Heavy the millstone

How Heavy The Millstone

Gilded

Gilded

A FOUNTAIN OF TEARS

A Fountain Of Tears

TO THE HOLY SPIRIT: A LOVE LETTER

To The Holy Spirit: A Love Letter

Part III Venus In Transit

Alice

Alice

Hibiscus

Hibiscus

Lady Pornographer

Lady Pornographer

Analemma

Analemma

Echo Of Ache

Echo Of Ache

Disquieters

Disquieters

Insignificance

Insignificance

Charlatan Mouth

Charlatan Mouth

Index of first lines:

Index Of Poems:

About The author

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Part 1

Androgynous Zones

Window-Shopping In Hell

Window-Shopping In Hell

Your heart’s too sore and numb with ache

for a tenement’s worth of breath at stake

’cause behind every tree and lake

lie flaming crosséd swords to bar the entrance

And during the hour the owl sleeps

The lungs have drowned, the liver leaps

you ask how long a promise keeps

in the freezer

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