The Secretary Parables
The Secretary Parables
Nancy Lagomarsino
“The Secretary Parables. How does she do this to us? It’s like the Devil or God saying: ‘Now you are here. Pick a door!’ Well, why not try all the doors, one after another? What’s behind this one? Aha! It’s a skull. Next a white cake. Then poison, a child,a decorative pillow, suffocation. Each door wrenches and enraptures us. Put all together, it’s heaven and hell. Life on earth as it really, really is. Not a wish.”
—Carolyn Chute
September 1991
ISBN: 9780914086925
Available in Print. Digital Format Coming Soon.
Born in Montpelier, Vermont, Nancy Lagomarsino graduated with a B.A. in English from Northeastern University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Vermont College. She is the author of three books of prose poems, Sleep Handbook (Alice James Books, 1987), The Secretary Parables (Alice James Books, 1991), and Light from an Eclipse (White Pine Press, 2005). Light from an Eclipse is a memoir covering the years of her father's Alzheimer’s disease. She has lived in Hanover, NH since 1974.
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