A mother’s life caring for her daughter. A daughter’s life caring for her mother. In Hard Candy: caregiving, mourning, and stage light, cancer survivor Annie Lanzillotto gives the performance of her life – for her life and her dying mother’s. She stages a drum-beating sit-in at the hospital and refuses to leave without the medication she needs to breathe. She screams operatic on the phone demanding oxygen equipment so her mother can breathe. The bureaucratic debacle of our health care system chronicled in this memoir will take your breath away, but not Annie’s. Every inhale, every exhale. For motherdaughter. For daughtermother.

A full-on joy to read.

A love song to Annie’s beloved mother.

Hope amidst illness, lust, abandoned love, and an unsolvable longing for a lost and gritty New York.

Pitch Roll Yaw is rich soul raw. Prepare for liftoff!

The[se] poems explode across the page.