Lassoed With a Decorative Tongue

By Eric David Lough

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1600471242
• ISBN13: 9781600471247
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Wasteland Pr
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.2" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Lassoed by Lough's Poetry

At the Academy, I usually have the opportunity to personally meet poets and writers who come as guest speakers and lecturers. In this way, I get to listen to their words and buy a copy of their poems at the reading. This is always a treat. As a student, Eric David Lough read his early work at poetry readings at Kent State University Trumbull Campus with some success. His work appeared in ICON, KSUTC's award-winning magazine for literature and art, but that was quite some time ago. Clearly, he has spent these years honing his craft. Since moving back to Hawaii, he has established his unique voice as a poet and as an artist in his collection Lassoed With A Decorative Tongue. The mix of imagery and language is as lavish as it themes--sex, love, women, and all that is good in the world. Most poems in the Academy are so icy to the touch. Like a good lover, Lough's poetry gives more than it takes. He shares succulent images like "I saw her glancing/dancing like rock candy...legs that said grace...lips moving quick lick to the beat" in his poem "150 Dollars and 30 Seconds to Rest." Not just a collection of angelic beauties, coffee, smoke, jazz, and fine wine also grace the lines of Lough's work, especially in "To Simmer Slit." He plays with the mythological and the physical in "Semantical" and "Descent" and shares gems like "Lingo Riots." I have always felt it was important to hear a poet read his poems to truly appreciate his work. However, Lough's work speaks from its pages in clear tones of the erotic and the sublime. Enjoy!