Dressed in Black

Dressed in BlackAuthor: Lisa MacKinney ISBN: 9781959163077 Publisher: Verse Chorus Press Year first published: 18 Mar 2025 Pages: 400 Format: Paperback softback The first full length history of the Shangri Las, one of the most significant and most misunderstood pop groups of the 1960s. Sisters Mary and Betty Weiss, together with twins Mary Ann and Marguerite Ganser, were schoolgirls when they formed the Shangri Las in 1963, and had a meteoric rise to fame with songs

"Sean Doolittle is a young writer with serious chops

Make-believe + melodrama = comedy as one dramatic little girl learns the new skill of finding a friend

Find meaning in success - and in challenge

A manual for making a new and better world that shows us

and he watches carefully as she and other foxes hunt

and climate justice

and safer conditions in the deadly mines

the poems range from the heavily influenced (those that lean into the source text with strong ekphrastic fidelity) to those that offer more abstracted and personal renderings

Now over the course of one pivotal day their carefully constructed world begins to fracture

but there is so much more to it

There are no accounts from Stella herself

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