Wendy Videlock lives on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies with her husband and their assorted critters. Her work appears in Hudson Review, Oprah Magazine, Poetry, Dark Horse, the New York Times, Best American Poetry, and other venues. Her books are available from Able Muse Press, and her upcoming collection of essays and haibun, The Poetic Imaginarium: A Worthy Difficulty (Lithic Press), will appear in mid-2022.
From its title to its last poem, Wendy Videlock's Slingshots and
Love Plums offers a delicious variety of treats, from witty
send-ups of contemporary mores to somber reflections on mortality,
love, and friendship. The pleasures include off-kilter rhymes,
elegant turns, earthy revelations, and the skillful mockery of
pretentiousness in its various forms. -David Caplan, author of In
the World He Created According to His Will
Videlock arrests because she arrests the complacent drift of sense.
She is so good at it that what begins as a taste for her work can
quickly turn into a craving-for deliciously cryptic spiritual
riddles. -David J. Rothman, author of Part of the Darkness, from
the foreword
Wendy Videlock's poems in Slingshots and Love Plums sometimes hint
at their Colorado origins but are never pinned down by a locality
or a life story. They are gleefully universal, taking delight
equally in huge abstraction and intimate real-worldliness. Whether
enchanting, imploring, or arguing, they always fascinate,
concentrating their acrobatics of thought and sound on the knots of
the human experience. -Maryann Corbett, author of Mid Evil
Wendy Videlock is one of the few poets I can still read at length
and purely for pleasure. Playfully wise, sharp-tongued, and
surprising as ever, Slingshots and Love Plums is yet another
treasure to be read and reread at your leisure. Thereafter you'll
find all your thinking is rhymed-but, don't mind: it's just dust
from the master. -Timothy Green, editor of Rattle
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