73rd Street

About the Book

Passionate, rebellious, always searching, writer and artist Lana Santorelli takes her readers on a journey through the heart of life. Brainy, curious and profoundly reflective, her poems draw us into a dream world, wrapping us in their spell. From the opening section on the struggle of the artist as a young girl, through passages through birth, death and love, Santorelli compels attention, her direct fearless voice intimately revealing a world of longing and rapture, a realm in which humans walk with the angels, tied to both earth and spirit. Intense, pure and committed to life, she shakes up the world – both her own and ours. ‘I just love to provoke,’ she writes in her poem holy ecstasies, ‘I can’t help it. It’s my nature.’

About the Author

Lana Santorelli is a New York artist, photographer and writer. Her novel The Other America is now available from Xlibris. Her poems have appeared in literary journals including A New Song, Nomad’s Choir, Poetry Motel and MusesKiss.com. Collections include Valley of Sighs (2002), Essence of Cloistered Inspirations (1993) and Lessons of a Lifetime (1992). Her cookbook Great Expectations is in its ninth edition. Santorelli is also a noted artist in mixed media and encaustics. The mother of six children and three grandchildren, she lives in Manhattan and Long Island with her husband of 34 years. Please visit her website LanaSantorelli.com.