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Cheryl Townsend & Lawrence Oberc:
SLEEPING IN THE BED THAT YOU MADE


Implosion Press
4975 Comanche Trail
Stow, OH 44224


30 pp., $2.00

This chapbook is all "cat" (Cheryl Townsend) poetry with 8 pages of Oberc artwork. Cat rants on in anger, with the centerpiece of most of these poems being children. Nasty, hateful, apoplectic poems about childhood horrors--prepubescent girls raped, newborns abandoned in dumpsters, unwanted babies born into a rotten world because of restrictive abortion laws. Strong stuff that hits the reader over the head with fury and shouted subjectivity.--Roger-Kyle Keith


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This review originally appeared in TapRoot Reviews #2,
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