ISBN 978-1-7333671-6-5
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“In the poems of Fairy Tale, magic and beauty thread the speaker’s path through forests of cruelty and risk. The vivid, particular world of Langley’s speaker traces an arc from childhood into maturity, sharing with us a sweetness inseparable from danger, “the knowledge that all / cherry pits contain a small dose of cyanide.”
Cindy Huyser, poet and editor, author of Burning Number Five: Power Plant Poems
“Gabrielle Langley’s new volume of poetry, Fairy Tale, is an invitation to dance in a Time ballroom gone magical. Or is it admittance to an art museum of white canvasses shaded and textured in ways we could never imagine? Whichever is the case, her gift is a relentless voice of inquiry—into the burning light of love, death, and disruption. She awakens us and never lets us go, even after the last page.”
John Milkereit, author of A Place Comfortable with Fire
“For all our scientific mastery, precision, and revelation, there is always surprise, uncertainty, and suffering. In Fairy Tale, Gabrielle Langley shows us how these gifts touch the skin of humanity, glancing its core. We dance, the agony and sweat of practice, the heights of expression fleeting,
Jeff Santosuosso, Editor-in-Chief at Panoply
yet luminous. Pointe shoes filled with broken glass…metaphor for the grim survival of war and atrocity, metaphor for an exquisite ballet. Such is our pain; such is our capacity for transcendence. Join her journey to find the “white swan…who teaches us how to fly.”