Bøger af Jane Marla Robbins

Outrageous, funny, heartbreaking, and defiant, Ms. Robbins describes her journey with the auto-immune disease, Myasthenia gravis. The book includes a surreal musical, as well as poetry, jokes, prayers, rants, inspiration, and hope.

This unique, funny and inspiring book of poems documents the poet's journey into greater and greater joy as she spends more time with her statue of the Laughing Buddha. "She practically dares the universe to bring her down, and it cannot do so. In poem after poem, laughter triumphs over whatever comes her way. It is a literate, knowing laughter," that will set the reader "smiling, then laughing, then seeing, then smiling a deeper kind of smile." Jane Marla Robbins is a National Endowment of the Arts Poetry Grant finalist.

These poems, like the café it celebrates, and the people who hang out there, are variously funky, funny, serious, original, alive, cozy, smart, silly, insightful, fantastical, spiritual, inspiring, well-crafted and celebratory.

In POEMS OF COVID-19. In Lockdown: The First Three Months, prize-winning poet Jane Marla Robbins documents her time living alone during the pandemic. Pulling no punches, the poems are variously serious, witty, heartbreaking, socially conscious, and deeply personal. Artfully crafted, along with iconic photographs, they offer comfort, healing and hope.