J. P. Dancing Bear

Gacela of Narcissus City

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Gacela of Narcissus City is available for order from Main Street Rag Press, click here for the details.  Or from the author, click here for details.

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"J.P. Dancing Bear’s chapbook, Gaceala of Narcissus City and Other Gacealas, Main Street Rag. This handsomely-produced, matte-cover chapbook is a collection of “gacela” poems, which are based on Lorca’s interpretation of the Arabic ghazal form; I believe “gacela” is Spanish for “gazelle” . . . J.P. Dancing Bear’s voice is edged with humor and bite, and the forms he uses aren’t a constraint but rather a way to allow him to write with a certain amount of detachment and surrealism. For instance, in one poem (“Gacela of Consumer Apathy”) he moves deftly from cosmetic testing on animals to the destruction of tiger habitats to an imaginary rabbit heaven. A skillful, mournful collection."

                                             —Jeannine Hall Gailey