Looking Askance - Klinkon, Laura
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In how many ways can Americans or humans in general not communicate? Looking Askance illustrates some ways from the standpoint of someone who is sorely offended by this common and persistent failing. Beginning with a sensitive individual who, in wanting to score a social success, is demoralized by "hypocrisy guilt," it moves to the person who withdraws from socializing due to ulterior motives that interfere with the simple need to socialize; then there is the person who in seeking connection through social media, feels the futility of communicating in a two- or even one-dimensional…mehr

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In how many ways can Americans or humans in general not communicate? Looking Askance illustrates some ways from the standpoint of someone who is sorely offended by this common and persistent failing. Beginning with a sensitive individual who, in wanting to score a social success, is demoralized by "hypocrisy guilt," it moves to the person who withdraws from socializing due to ulterior motives that interfere with the simple need to socialize; then there is the person who in seeking connection through social media, feels the futility of communicating in a two- or even one-dimensional environment. Eventually in this collection, frustration becomes more interpersonal and intense. Varying style-wise, rhyme and alliteration are used as satirical instensifiers, while direct invective uses exaggerated comparisons to make its most egregious points. On the other hand, at least one poem recognizes the evasiveness inherent in communication as necessary, while another decries our vulnerability to distortions in the political arena. We can surmise that writing about frustration in communicating may be one way to rise above it or at least temporarily relieve it; nevertheless, it may be that in the current new century, we humans are becoming more removed from each other and stifled in our need to connect.
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Laura Klinkon, ne¿e DiLiberto in the Province of Enna, Sicily, grew up in Pittsburgh, Pa., studied literature and language at the University of Pittsburgh and at American University in Washington, D.C., completing additional coursework at various other universities, including New York University, Middlebury College, and the Rochester Institute of Technology. She has been employed in teaching, editing, free-lance writing, and translating in various cities including New York, Washington, D.C., and her adopted home town of Rochester, N.Y., where she has also raised two children together with her former husband, Heinrich Klinkon, now deceased. She has been a member of Just Poets and Rochester Poets as well as a member of Writers & Books in Rochester, N.Y.; she has read her poems in the Eastman School of Music Women in Music Festival, and appeared in several anthologies, including Liberty's Vigil and the Just Poets annual Le Mot Juste, as well as consecutively in the monthly online Canto Magazine. She has read in the Genessee Reading Series of Writers & Books and in a Poetry as Philosophy series with poet and phi- losopher David White, at Books, Etc. in Macedon, N.Y. and at the St. John Fisher College Skalny Center sponsored by Rochester Poets. In 2013 she published her full-length book of poems Trying to Find You with Kernel-Image, and in 2017, the chapbooks Kitchen Abrasives and Looking Askance, under the Stesichorus Publications, Rochester, N.Y. imprint.