The Red Bowl

What does Diablo do after he becomes a telephone phone in the desert? Why is the smallest of the tarantulas frozen to the boulders after midnight, while the other spiders play baseball with the old man Jose? Who loved Scarletta better than angels?The Red Bowl is an archetypal fable in first person poems that will take you on a surreal and beautiful journey through the dark valleys and harrowing beauty of the taboo aspects of human desires—before its startling and unexpected end.

Holaday Mason is the author of Towards the Forest (University of Minnesota Press, 2007),Dissolve (New River Press, 2011), Light Spilling From Its Own Cup (Inevitable Press, 1999) andInterlude (Far Star Fire Press, 2001). The Red Bowl is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in Spring 2016, andThe “She” Series: A Venice Correspondence, a collaboration with Sarah Maclay, is forthcoming from What Books in Fall 2016. Her poetry has been published inseveral literary journals and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Co-Editor ofEcho 68 and Poetry Editor of Mentalshoes.com, Holaday holds an MA in Clinical Psychology from Antioch and is a licensed psychotherapist.