My second book “Dead in Rome” is finally published.
I published it yesterday and already have sold three and recieved around twelve reviews which is allot to me. Heres the link to check it out and I am going to post some of the reviews for it here as well.
March 19, 2008 at 5:12 am
Original and Creative
by Darren Burton
From what I’ve read of these poems they are very original, creative, and quite dark and deep. It’s good to read some poetry that’s not just a rehash of work seen a thousand times before. Well done!
March 19, 2008 at 5:13 am
Wow…
by Savanna Bruce
The poems that I have read so far all seem to have the same effect, they seem to tear out my heart. You truly have a talent for making the reader feel as though they are the ones your poetry is written about. Wonderfully done!
March 19, 2008 at 5:14 am
Haunting
by Dillon Langlands
I decided to take a look at this book of poetry and I have to admit I sighed with exasperation when I realized that it came off as another angst-filled hobbyist poetry book; but then I hit page 131, Reflections…I was taken aback and had to read it twice.
After being thoroughly shocked by the true depth of the poetry and the idea that this woman touched the very face of night and was able to express it so, I had to re-read the bits she had laid out in her preview. Looking between the lines I was surprised to find a kind of quiet darkness lingering there, something waiting to be disturbed amongst the ashes fallen at her feet.
The presentation is wonderfully dry, in that it will not deter your focus from the heart of the matter, so long as you are willing to read what is and isn’t branded in ink.
I would think anyone could be both disturbed and entranced by the eidolon Jamie has presented in her latest book.
March 19, 2008 at 5:15 am
Dead in Rome
by Charles Berry
These are beautiful, intimate poems, and the speaker reveals detailed commentary about love and pain. The poems discuss how personal history bleeds into the present, and how we can move in the present, regardless of our past. Though the poems discuss pain, the resulting emotion is freedom, the freedom to move on, and love again.
Thank you for writing these tender pieces!
March 19, 2008 at 5:16 am
Pain/bread
by Stanley MARTIN
We do need it: pain/bread….These stark/bare confessions of the soul and heart….
Jamie does it very well: Ms Joni Mitchell before “Hejira”: a woman’s storm rising to the surface, and thrashing a sea’s shore….
We do need it: and always will; a male, perhaps i, would seek deep understanding/control, but Jamie! these stark catharsis’ hunt you down beyond all mirrors: beyond the saviour’s influence, the need to forgive/forget, and again my femme-male is at a meeting with “Death” sitting on the fence where the graveyard hides from the street…
….Learnt to love u, Jamie, like i loved joni mitchell….
March 19, 2008 at 5:18 am
by michael woyce
Dark and yet clean. A collection of powerfully constructed poems that rip at the imagination. Well worth the read an excellent book!