Renowned poet Holly Prado shares intimate and touching autobiographical vignettes sure to delight long-time fans as well as new readers. "The unshakeable craft in every sentence of Holly Prado's memoir, "Really Truly," makes you forget you are reading and ushers you quietly into a wonderland ...There are darks and lights of every variety here and episode by episode they gather onto a portrait on par with, say, a late Rembrandt or, closer to home, one by Alice Neal. Brava!" -- Aram Saroyam, author of "Complete Minimal Poems" "Searching and intelligent, their intuitive perceptions and lunar logic grounded in the life of the body and exceptionally nuanced understanding of the outer world, these sharply-etched lyrical essays are pages from a Book of Life, one inhabited deeply, reverently, and completely. "Really Truly" is a gorgeous collection." -- Alison Townsend, author of "Persephone in America" and "The Blue Dress: Poems and Prose Poems"
About the Author: Holly Prado has had eleven books published, including poetry, prose-poetry, a novel and two novellas. Her poetry and prose have appeared in numerous publications, including The Paris Review; The Kenyon Review; The American Poetry Review and many others. The winter 2012-2013 issue of Malpaís Review published her fifteen page poem/letter to TuFu, the Tang Dynasty poet. In 2015, poems were included in Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, an anthology of over 100 poets (Pacific Coast Poetry Series). Poems also appeared in the 2015 anthology Edgar Allan Poet #3 --2015 (Edgar and Lenore's Publishing House). Since the early 1970s, Prado has taught creative writing both privately and in alternative educational situations, such as the Los Angeles Woman's Building and Beyond Baroque Literary Foundation. From 1989-2009, she taught poetry in the Master of Professional Writing Program at USC. In 2000, she was awarded First Prize in the Fin de Millennium competition, sponsored by the Los Angeles Poetry Festival. In November, 2006, she was presented with a Certificate of Recognition from the City of Los Angeles for her achievements in writing, teaching and participation in the Los Angeles literary community. She is the 2016 recipient of the George Drury Smith Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry, given annually by Beyond Baroque Literary Foundation, founded in 1968 by George Drury Smith. Prado lives in East Hollywood with her husband Harry Northup, a film actor and poet. They are both founding members of Cahuenga Press, a poets publishing cooperative which has been publishing books of poetry since 1989.