Dancing the Tarantella: Short Poems

Master storyteller in short-poem form, Alexis Rotella is a keen observer of what it's like to be human. Her gift is seeing into the unseen, offering the reader insights through humor, dead-pan seriousness and everything in between. Rotella is known in poetry circles as the Tankaqueen because she is adept in writing five-line poems known as tanka as well as a new form, cherita. In this book you will be taken on an unforgettable journey - you will meet many characters and many circumstances that will make you laugh, wince and cry.