Illicit Kingdom: & Other Poems

By Liza Libes

Great Gatsby meets Chaucerian legend in "Illicit Kingdom," a poem that explores the intoxicating illusion of living in a too-good-to-be-true fantasy world with someone who can never see eye to eye with you. The opening stanza melds naturalistic imagery with diction suggestive of a fairytale landscape, and as the poem progresses, the narrator becomes increasingly disillusioned with the metaphorical kingdom she has created for herself, eventually emerging into the real world and learning to fend for herself. Illicit Kingdom is the title poem of Liza Libes's latest poetry collection. Building on her previous two collections, Broken Weekend and Vintage Lovers , Libes crafts a masterful array of scenes marked by desire and disillusionment that address what it means to be a woman in contemporary society--and what it means to find a voice as one. Illicit Kingdom is a meditation on longing, growing up, and aging that establishes Libes as a mature poet who has found a place amongst her contemporaries. Illicit Kingdom is her third poetry collection.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CVSBXNZ9
• ISBN13: 9798878282734
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 53 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"