Concupiscent Consumption

"Concupiscent Consumption" is a titillating chapbook of poetry exploring the romantic and the erotic. Inviting readers to share in her experiences, LindaAnn LoSchiavo offers us a brief, yet sensual look at life's adventures. -- Advance Acclaim from Molly Peacock -- "Why should I teach old memories to talk?" bold poet LindaAnn LoSchiavo asks, and her poems of Eros shout out the many answers. From the child whose cheeks are pinched by her Italian family, to the teenager's make-out sessions, from figs (both symbolic and real), to Jayne Mansfield (all too real and yet symbolic), the candid lines of LoSchiavo's "Concupiscent Consumption" examine the urges of a young woman seeking to define her sexuality as well as her culture. The young woman in her times--at once liberated and restricted--refracts in the lens of the savvy poet looking back on how her womanhood was formed. -- Molly Peacock, poet, The Analyst: Poems, W.W. Norton