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Teresa Leo

Sarah Freligh: A Review of Teresa Leo’s Bloom in Reverse

August 5, 2014 by PBQ

In The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus suggests that the “only really serious philosophical question . . . is suicide.” Sisyphus is condemned to push a boulder uphill only to see it roll back. In the wake of a loved one’s suicide, the living are left to puzzle over unfathomable loss, the metaphorical rock that […]

Filed Under: Contributors 89, Issue 89, Prose, Prose 89, Reviews Tagged With: Contributors 89, Prose, Prose 89, Reviews, Sarah Freligh, Teresa Leo

Teresa Leo: The Lasting

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

What we will remember is this— in the graveyard late at night, the brief curve of the body as we hoisted ourselves up the cemetery wall, that moment of hanging when weight shifted back to some image of ourselves holding out like kids in our parents’ kitchens when love fell away in knives and screams; […]

Filed Under: Contributors 77, Issue 77, Poetry, Poetry 77 Tagged With: Contributors 77, Poetry, Poetry 77, Teresa Leo

Teresa Leo: Junkie

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

I’m an off-ramp, a throughway, the last exit on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, where the cashier said I look like a cross between Elaine from Seinfeld and Alanis Morissette, or his high school prom date, who he left to get high with a cheerleader, bleachers, blackout, a second down at the last home football game of […]

Filed Under: Contributors 77, Issue 77, Poetry, Poetry 77 Tagged With: Contributors 77, Poetry, Poetry 77, Teresa Leo

Teresa Leo: The Heart has the Capacity to Break and     Reset a Million Times

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

But it’s the million and first, say, that begins in a cab to Woodside, Queens with a hockey player, who’s also a musician and a city planner, who might be a one-night stand, but he’s the best kisser you’ve come across in years, with a face that’s all elegy and nostalgia, edges but smooth, the […]

Filed Under: Contributors 80, Issue 80, Poetry, Poetry 80 Tagged With: Contributors 80, Poetry, Poetry 80, Teresa Leo

Teresa Leo: Online Dating

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

A year of surfing the profiles, where the men look for women the way women shop for shoes— ordering their size in a variety of styles: slingback, hook & loop, stiletto, the most impractical ones with points at the toes not built for a human foot, but the excitement of how they look in pictures, […]

Filed Under: Contributors 80, Issue 80, Poetry, Poetry 80 Tagged With: Contributors 80, Poetry, Poetry 80, Teresa Leo

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