Starcrossed | Linda Stryker

  Stryker is a particularly sensitive observer of the eternal, and here she plies this skill with humor and pathos, recording the heartbreak of love. Starcrossed hums with bighearted music. –– Amy Pickworth, author of Bigfoot for Women Linda Stryker’s Starcrossed is a spirited collection of poemssteeped in science, music, irony, contemporary culture, and lovegone wrong. Stryker’s voice is witty, humorous, oddball, andhighly intelligent. A buzz of a read! –– Susan Vespoli, author of Road Trip   Starcrossed is a brilliant book concerned with much more than the travails of disappointed love. The spellbinding poems take the reader on a self-described emotional roller coaster.  It's a dizzying ride, propelled by language that remarkably reinvents itself from line to line and poem to poem––serving a human spirit that jokes and dances and dares to shout back at a hostile universe with its "cryptic" message. –– Bob Longoni, author of Woodpiles     ***   Artist’s StatementI love words.  I love