Madness And Retribution: Poems

Travel a picturesque and often harrowing road through these narrative poems to encounter the quiet survivors and overlooked places fallen through the cracks in the American Dream. Meet a battered wife wearing a celebratory dress to her husband’s funeral ( The Red Dress ) and a fed-up woman who shoots a complaining nonsmoker at Denny’s ( Mother of Four ). With empathy for the human condition, Juliette Torrez captures the absurdity, hypocrisy, and ultimately the beauty of the places and people she has known.