Stiletto Talk, poems by Sara Levy
The Argonne Hotel Press, 1995
Sara Levy's poetry chapbook, Stiletto Talk, presents fifteen of her poems, each sharp, stylistic, and provoking.
Levy is a hip D.C. poet, whose works border on the abstract, as in "How to End It":
What is needed then is
high-octane closure
with the finality
of seams and
the innuendo
of roar.
Many of her poems exude a quiet sensuality without becoming trite or sappy. In "Caduceus", named for the medical symbol of intertwined serpents, Levy writes:
But those emblematic tongues
paired embers of moist
in those arid twists,
well, they made me smile.
Her haiku are stunning in that they offer a very modern twist on a traditional form, with titles almost as long as the poems themselves, such as "Haiku for the Unlucky Woman Tasked with Writing 'Dominatrixhood for Dummies'".
Levy's chapbook is in its second printng. It is also available through its publisher, The Argonne House Press, a small independent publisher in Washington, D.C.
