Monday, May 13, 2013

searching for a pulse by Nazifa Islam

Nazifa Islam writes cool poetry.  What?  You don't read poetry?  This will change your mind.  Check out the cover:



And you can win it-- a bound galley not a finished copy-- before it's published in August.  It's in May's Early Reviewer batch on LibraryThing, and it's a Goodreads Giveaway until May 31.

Still wondering what searching for a pulse is about?  It's the story about Rosemary who wants to love and to be loved but finds it tragically impossible.

She married a man with one glass eye
and divorced him the next day but he
still got his green card. She weeps now
while sitting in front of her television
watching Wheel of Fortune every night,
You haven't met her yet, but her name is Rosemary.