PUBLISHED BY Moon Tide Press
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Kathleen Florence's journey across America is lyrical, loving, tender and poignant. It shines freedom! It's a cinematic journey told with newness and clarity. An astonishing and elegant debut! Prayers With a Side of Cash follows a filmmaker’s journey from New York to Los Angeles, reframing the classic American road trip with a series of poems that witness a country in flux. The collection asks what it means to travel not only through space but through the shifting stories that shape us. Part personal pilgrimage and part exploration of American identity, the poems are accompanied by a soundtrack that dares to believe there is hope to be found in the sweetness of life.
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Also available at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur
PRAYERS WITH A SIDE OF CASH by Kathleen Florence is surreal and cerebral, writing the American landscape with abandon…This is Florence's documentary on the soul of America with one hand on the wheel and the other on her camera phone, recording human actors dressed as rebels and rejects; those who both missed and found their stops among the lonely highways and abandoned hardware stores…Grab a handle. Roll down your window. Hear the cicadas, smell the magnolias, taste the battered fish, feel the rough edges of a patchwork quilt of an American flag draped around your bare shoulders. It was made by a stranger who loves you.
David A. Romero, author of Diamond Bars 2 (Moon Tide Press, 2024) and My Name Is Romero (FlowerSong Press, 2020)
The cinematic poetry in Kathleen Florence's breathtaking collection, Prayers With a Side of Cash, is a road trip to home. These poems detail the landscape traveled in search of the promise of freedom. With wide-angle lens and long shot view, Florence shares her journey. Yes, we are her passengers but we are not passive participants. We are witnesses to an America in transition.
Nicca Ray, poet & author, Ray By Ray: a Daughter's Take on the Legend of Nicholas Ray
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