Unlikely 2.0 and guest editor Dan Waber are proud to present four poems by Barbara DeCesare, from her new spoken word album, Adrift. This 28-poem album from the author of jigsaweyesore is filled with complex and lovely images, but punches hard in piece after piece, mixing beauty and substance in an exquisite broth.
Whatever It Takes (1.2 megs)
Baby Makes (923 kb)
Adrift (1.2 megs)
All the Fuss (829 kb)
Poems by Barbara DeCesare have appeared previously in Unlikely Stories, as well as Poetry, Alaska Quarterly Review and many others. She is a perennial instructor at the University of Pennsylvania's Writers' Conference, a featured writer at the most recent Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, and a paralegal with a depressing collection of cute pumps and three teenaged kids. If you like the tracks featured on the site, please consider purchasing Adrift - she's still in the hole about a grand for it and she's running out of reasons to live. Ordering info at www.emster.com/barbara.
You will need an MP3 player to hear the songs, such as the free Winamp.