Sherry Chandler » Eve’s Red Dress
Eve’s Red Dress
Diane Lockward. Eve’s Red Dress. (Nicholasville, Kentucky, Wind Publications, 2003)
The poems in Eve’s Red Dress are about “Losing the Blues.” Like any honky-tonk girl on a Saturday night, Eve slips into her red satin dress, “pull[s] up to a neon / martini glass, order[s] a shot of tequila…I’ll never be royal for you again,” she declares.
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