Secure Your Own Mask

(Paperback)

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Beers is very active and highly visible in social media and will be well heavily promoting this, her 3rd book.
extensive reading tour of Northwest
We have advance pdf review copies circulating already.

Reviews

From the opening poem of Secure Your Own Mask, whose speaker confuses ringing/ and wringing, I was hooked. This book does both: it rings and wrings. In searing lyrics, Shaindel Beers explores beauty and violence, and the voyeuristic impulse toward and unhealthy human appetite for both. The world as it was before/ no longer exists, but the poems do exist, and they are not only unflinching but also open, even warm, despite it all. Secure Your Own Mask is a remarkable collection. These poems are quite literally death-defying.Maggie Smith, author of Good Bones
With the cries of bird wives, farm wives, beaten wives, and in almost wrecked lives, the wonderful poems of Shaindel Beers shimmer and sing. How much of love / is love these scintillating works of art ask, their inquiries the kinds of questions the survivor of a wrong marriage doesnt want to ask, and mustbecause urgency is the meter of this heart, because the thrumming of poetry has the power to heal.Alan Michael Parker
Consider this books imperative title as you enter the world of Shaindel Beers. How many times have you heard that phrase within the flight attendants spiel but never thought to yourself, Theres a poem there For Beers, however, experience and the language with which we negotiate it are fraught, suggestive, ironic, and yet clear as the air above the clouds. The world we share with her hands her raw materiala child, pelicans, lovers, a drunken cowboy, an old house, and yes, particular wordsand she proceeds to build these exquisite living machines of language we call poems. They unmask what it means to be really alive. Read, and listen, and be dazzled.
Robert Wrigley

Author Bio

Shaindel Beers is the author of three full-length poetry collections, A Brief History of Time (2009), The Childrens War and Other Poems (2013), both from Salt Publishing, and Secure Your Own Mask (2018), from White Pine Press. She teaches at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon, where she lives with her son Liam, and serves as Poetry Editor of Contrary Magazine.