| The Honey Land Review Spring 2009 Volume 1, Issue 2 |
in the feminist fable emboldened us as we tossed off shoes and bras wore mini skirts up at our patootie and moo-moos to our toes, donned headbands and grew hair to our hips. Maxi measured several inches longer than the midi. Midi-coats and maxi skirts and wraparound happi-jackets along with fits-all pantyhose liberated locked knees and need to fold our hands, sit, ladies, up straight. By painting on flowers, peace symbols and smiley faces we could transform naked into activist or choose to manifest the Moroccan look of opulence, rings on every finger and advocate an Arabian influence of yellow-crepe with the wearer displaying her concept of personality quintessentially American, smelling of patchouli and more patchouli swaying in smoky loops of cannabis flouncing, while the mercantile mercenary beauty industry was wearing a painted thug’s face slinging slogans worn threadbare by overuse. |
Looking Through the Transparent Blouse for the Perfectly Bosomed Carol Levin |
CAROL LEVIN's chapbook, “Red Rooms and Others” was released by Pecan
Grove Press, April 2009 and “Sea Lions Sing Scat” from Finishing Line Press,
07. Work appears or is forthcoming in The New York Quarterly, Gander
Press Review, Aquila Review, Late Blooms postcard series, The Massachusetts
Review, Third Coast,The Seattle Review, The Pedestal Magazine, issues #16 and
35 of the Cortland Review, The Comstock Review, Junctures Journal,
Umbrella and others. Poems were set as a choral work by composer Carol
Sams and have been performed by various choirs. Levin collaborated in
translating Anton Chekhov’s four major plays and wrote a dictionary of
Stanislavski terms for theater artists. She is an Editorial Assistant for the Crab
Creek Review and teaches the Alexander Technique in Seattle, WA.
Grove Press, April 2009 and “Sea Lions Sing Scat” from Finishing Line Press,
07. Work appears or is forthcoming in The New York Quarterly, Gander
Press Review, Aquila Review, Late Blooms postcard series, The Massachusetts
Review, Third Coast,The Seattle Review, The Pedestal Magazine, issues #16 and
35 of the Cortland Review, The Comstock Review, Junctures Journal,
Umbrella and others. Poems were set as a choral work by composer Carol
Sams and have been performed by various choirs. Levin collaborated in
translating Anton Chekhov’s four major plays and wrote a dictionary of
Stanislavski terms for theater artists. She is an Editorial Assistant for the Crab
Creek Review and teaches the Alexander Technique in Seattle, WA.
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