Frym, Gloria: Lies & More Lies

BlazeVOX, paperback Publication Date: February 15, 2025 Publisher Marketing:  Comedy and tragedy intersect in this wildly honest and forceful collection of proses. While those in power twist the meaning of words and ideas and propagate false “news” in lethal ways, with irony and wit, Lies & More Lies beckons the reader to also witness the intimate and civic lies of the quotidian. Even as the work cries out for some kind of justice, Lies & More Lies transcends our lived absurdities. An undertow of ecological and social mourning permeates, suggesting that lies in the service of political and corporate gain contribute to and hasten potential global decimation. The collection is driven by language that has little use for a center, to paraphrase Stein, enabling the writer to play with digressions and associations reined in by the paragraph as organizing principle. As Baudelaire insists, “toujours poète, même en prose.” Gloria Frym’s brain is bigger than the sky. Yet in her indictmen