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Gloria Wimberley, M.A., a Pushcart Prize Nominee (2013) and active poet, having lived and worked in Miami, Washington, DC, and other cosmopolitan locales for 20 years, now lives with her husband and two children in the woodsy warmth of her small West Virginia hometown in serene Appalachia.
She is the author of ~Dialect of Dahlias~,
a 102-page poetry collection (containing both dark, gritty, visceral--even controversial and disturbing--(Leper) poems, and resonant "love & light" family & parenthood-themed (Lily) poems)published by Edgar & Lenore's Publishing House of Los Angeles.
~ E & L's website address:
www.edgarallanpoet.com
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Her career profile can be found on LinkedIn;
writers and other artists are welcome to connect with her on LinkedIn. Her Facebook author-page is under her name, Gloria J. Wimberley.
Reviewed by Anne Boling for Readers' Favorite
The words of "Dialect of Dahlias" by poet Gloria J Wimberley danced around in my mind as I read them. Wimberley is one of the few that speak much with few words. Her style is minimalistic and yet so expressive. Wimberley has kept her lines short and clean. She offers vivid descriptions of her childhood that transported me back to mine. I was amazed that although I have never met this poet I felt as if she was telling about parts of my childhood. Which of us did not enjoy the days when we played with our friends? Time would get away from us and we would hear our mothers calling us home. As children our imagination had no limits and our childhood offered us the freedom to live life to the fullest.
And the Mothervoices called us home.
I remember the realm of Play
Where Childhood was king
And Imagination was queen
Vive la reine
'Wind Jockeys' brought back memories of family reunions. I would almost swear Gloria J. Wimberley and I attended the same reunions. Cousins enjoying each other while the adults smoked played their games and listened to Bobby Vinton. I miss those days.
“Grandma In Her Prime” could very well have been written about my grandmother. She was a beautiful lady in her “prime.”
as her brunette heard bobs
in the ballroom
Smoky white squin-glints
sashay clockwise
across a hardwood floor.
"Dialect of Dahlias" is a wonderful collection of poetry. One of the things I love about poetry is the fact it is subjective. What I connect to may not be what another reader would connect to. This is especially true with "Dialect of Dahlias". This book would make a great gift your mother; like me they will fondly remember their past as Gloria Wimberly takes them back with her vivid descriptions and light and breezy words.
