"To enter the pages of Lacquer is a Thrilling Word is to walk inside the wild and wonderful, kaleidoscopically shape-shifting mind of Barrie Cole..." - Alison Luterman

Barrie Cole revels in a language-infused astonishment at the mundane and surreal aspects of reality. Her poems seek meaning and transcendence through imagination, metaphor, wordplay and unconventional forms.

Lacquer is a Thrilling Word, invites readers to immerse themselves in the sublimity of language through unconventional forms and inventive metaphors. In this full-length collection of poems and short prose, Cole’s signature word play and strange takes can be found in to-do lists, fortune cookie fortunes, run-on sentences, and more. Each poem somersaults toward the places where the beauty and absurdity in living are revealed in equal parts.

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