Making Love to the 50 Ft. Woman - Paperback

by Rick Lupert (Author)

Rick Lupert's seventeenth poetry collection, Making Love to the 50 Ft. Woman, is the long awaited follow up to, and first collection of Lupert's selected works since, 1997's I am My Own Orange County. Lupert's poetry exists at the intersections of the wise and the ridiculous, the spectacular and the mundane. The humor and deeper themes throughout his work will win over the generations of people who've come to regard poetry as an inaccessible literary art. These poems, written over the last two decades, have been widely published in dozens of journals, zines, and anthologies from all over the world. They're rooted in the every day Los Angeles experience and take you through fatherhood, traffic, love, death, and the inevitable experience of finding a wrapped sausage on the sidewalk. You'll learn how to kiss, you'll meet the cutest leaf in the world, you'll say goodbye to Peter Seeger and Robin Williams, you may even relive your own childhood. Get ready to Make Love to the Fifty Ft. Woman. Don't wear anything complicated.

Author Biography

Rick Lupert has been involved with L.A. poetry since 1990. He is the recipient of the 2017 Ted Slade Award, and the 2014 Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center Distinguished Service Award, a 2 time Pushcart Prize Nominee, and a Best of the Net nominee. He served a co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets for 2 years, and created the Poetry Super Highway ( http: //poetrysuperhighway.com/ ). Rick also hosted the weekly Cobalt Cafe reading for almost 21 years. His first spoken word album "Rick Lupert Live and Dead" featuring 25 studio and live tracks was released in March, 2016. He's authored 21 collections of poetry, including "God Wrestler", "Donut Famine", "Professor Clown on Parade", "Romancing the Blarney Stone", "Making Love to the 50 Foot Woman", "The Gettysburg Undress" (Rothco Press) and "Nothing in New England is New", and edited the anthologies "Ekphrastia Gone Wild", "A Poet's Haggadah" and the noir anthology "The Night Goes on All Night. He also writes and draws (with Brendan Constantine) the daily web comic "Cat and Banana" and writes the Jewish Poetry column "From the Lupertverse" for http: //www.JewishJournal.com/. He has been lucky enough to read his poetry all over the world. http: //poetrysuperhighway.com/ http: //facebook.com/rickpoet http: //www.catandbanana.com/ http: //www.cdbaby.com/cd/ricklu