Here’s a new illuminating voice. When real poets come, they are worth listening to. This is a practical girl. She used her pain to fashion a book that will take her safely to the next port. Hooray for talent. It TRUMPS heartbreak again!!! - Merrit Malloy
Female
35 years old
Ft. Polk, Louisiana
United States
Author Heather Angelika Dooley enjoys: reading, writing (but not arithmetic), poetry (most obviously), music, good films, drawing, painting, modeling, refurbishing antique furniture, singing, dancing (she used to be in a company), DJing (she was a Goth/Industrial DJ), acting (mostly in spec work), daydreaming (ALL of the time), gardening, baking, going to coffeehouses and teahouse touring, Skate Art, tattooing, scenic artistry (she used to build things for Universal Studios, museums, & traveling exhibits like 'Grossology', to name a few), screen-printing, road tripping, having fantastic conversation with friends over cocktails, car restoration (mostly old Internationals and hot rods), going to college for Professional Writing (she plans to write more books, but also become a professor), and above and beyond all else: Motherhood(!)—she loves being a “MaMum” to her 4-year-old daughter, Wilhelmina Indigo! As you see, she has always been a sort of “Jaclyn” of all trades.
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"Heather- You always do words beautifully, in a complex way that teaches the reader and yet takes them into a dream. I love your writing, Mermaiden, and I don't know what this literary world would be without you. God, you are brilliant!"
"Your wording is so hypnotizing and, for me, so visual."
"Are you kidding/killing me? Again, it's all just awe, given in sweet surrender and humble savor."
"Your words touch my soul and inspire me to write from the heart!"
"A teacher of life you are. Hardly ever do you write something that doesn't give me a robust rush in my veins - a fantastic feat for the soul, and for it I am grateful."
"Heather- You never cease to amaze me! Your subject matter is infinite. What imagination and vivid imagery lies in your stanzas of the meter."
“...like a treat for the tongue. I love the way you express yourself... ...just sparks with energy......feels like being within the flow of white water.”
“You have a way of picking up the nuances of poetry that others miss, I really appreciate that. Thank you.”
“It feels gooood to float within your grace Heather!”
"What a beautiful, intriguing turn of phrase! I want to stand up and applaud this person!"
"Ripples within ripples. This flows outwards and If i look close enough I think i can see that there is more than one source. Two splashes, one pool. LOVELY."
"I marvel at how you bring different elements of life into the understanding of a relationship. This time it was war, in a metaphorical sense of course."
"This was almost cathartic. Made me want to scream right along with you."
"The rhythm in this piece is also amazing. It feels like a scream, making me breathe out and out and out, and then suddenly a quirk in the rhythm and my scream catches, but it doesn't stop, and then I breathe out and out and out some more. Wow!"
"It felt like I was in a dream, flowing through the waters lying on my back remembering your feelings precisely. It was beautiful."
"This is sooooo close to the reality of certain things that not only did it burn me but it filled me with questions. Curiosities. I am left stunned and unfinished."
"It's just amazing how you can relay such transformation in words or even personally go through it... I certainly see how the true lover's knot bursts and spills the substance of your wounds, then forms again."
"Thank you for letting me into your world."
"Your mind is amazing. Your words carry mystery and beauty beyond short, instant commentary sometimes. To read one of your poems is to linger in the maze of expression and to lose one's self in the triad of thought. That's why I always come back for more, so you can paint me with your colors and "Leave me drunk with my love of brushstrokes."
Sorry I had to borrow your line to express myself. ;-)"
"Fantastic title, beautiful words, and very elegant exposition. Aren't the last two lines here perfection? However, it is a gem in its array of juxtaposed expression.
Again, the first two lines and the last two lines so move my heart."
"Nice spirit behind you, you've got this plucky energy that I really admire. I like the way you experiment with language as well. You are a very talented writer."
"you have dictate a painting of sensory detail that transcends the use or need for spoken or tangible mode. I see the swirl of mood shift from thought, feeling to feeling."
"damn! dig the way you travel through different times so fluidly."
"Your word play is vibrant, keeping a pace and twisting the phrases into the metaphoric, but your scenes are crisp at its heart. "
"ah, i love this. i can see all of your arts combined here. it is like a song and dance with rhythm and words and packs that defiant and strong poetic punch!"
"You dig deep not only into a writer's conundrum, but also anybody seeking a catharsis."
"oh my god will i ever read a poem of yours that i don't love? i think not. brilliant. i would have never thought that one whole line could so perfectly rhyme with a one-word line. you have such a gift for poetry and i am so utterly jealous of you."
"The repetition of "every time I draw in" is especially rhythmic; it weaves through the poem and gives it true cadence. This one is not just about words, but vision. Rare treat!"
"this is the poem which brought me to your work; this is real good... life good."
"If I ever write a book, I want this poem as the :forward"! This is solid gold stuff!"
"MOST EXCELLENT. Have you ever thought of putting this feeling into a screenplay or novel? WOOO Thank you."
"There are so many personal thoughts embedded in your poems, more so than anyone I have ever read. You have a unique voice that analyzes and poetically dwells on meanings."
"Wow. Simply marvelous. Truly beautiful language. Ridiculous. Amazing use of the (). It adds so much."
"Every poem of yours is an introspective melody that captivates my curiosity. I always read your poetry in the pace of a turtle, trying to grasp all of the layers of substratum in your ethereal yet heavenly words. You speak in great metaphors, in volumes that every single person who reads you will each take in a different way than the next bird who comes along."
"Wow, such awesome writing. You continue to astound me. "
"so melancholy and watery.. how wonderful to be inspired by reading to your child. this is beautiful and wistful. i enjoyed you very much and look forward to reading more of your work."
"strong , as usual. you have a lucky girl to have a mother with such a knack for verse."
"You play with language like no one I know. There is a magnetizing force in your words and images. One just reads and gets lost. It takes a while for my feet to touch the ground after I read your poems."
"white noise, disturbing in its interference, yet poetic in its use within. I like the comparison, the buzz and hum of drama."
"Awww. I love this glimpse of your reality. It brings you closer to my mind (and heart). One must let things flow, really not worry about poetry, but rather how poetic life is to one sometimes. No need for "extra thought." It's beautiful this way, without make up, but with (utmost) beautiful color."
"i love this heather... another masterpiece by you... i love the way you use... your words..."
"Sad and brilliant. This is a great poem even if it was born from a dark place. You are very talented."
"Oh Heather. For writer's block...this is so creative. Clever....I love it. It earns you a 10 on the meter."
"This is one of the more innovative looks at the dreaded writer's block I've read. You've turned it around as a badge of honor. I love it!"
"Such a creative way to shed light on this subject. Very well done and I like the way you were able to display the layers of the metaphor as you plowed through them one by one."
The Song He Sang To Me... by Merrit Malloy
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Diary of... Anne Frank
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by H.P. Lovecraft
Made with Words by May Swenson
The Raven & Ghostly Tales and Eerie Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Natural History of Love by Diane Ackerman
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Watership Down by Richard Adams
In Cold Blood & Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Inamorata by Joseph Gangemi
Letters from William Cullen Bryant
A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawerence Ferlinghetti
Maxims & Reflections by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Shakespheares Sonnets by William Shakespeare
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Earnest J. Gaines
Shoot the Moon -&- Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts Love is a Stranger by Rumi
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Glass Castles by Jeanette Wells
-and- He Said He Wanted to Die with Me Now I Don't Have His Phone Number by Heather Angelika Dooley
All of the “People I’d Like to Meet” are Heather Angelika Dooley's literary heroes, but also on the list are her Mom, her daughter, MLK Jr., Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Bono, Anne Frank, and anyone who did anything to inspire change in the world for the betterment of equality and liberation and non-segregation. Heather Angelika loves clairvoyants, rebels, revolutionaries, prophets and daring souls.
A novel and daring, yet, complexly dreamy woman possessing an intuitive crossbreed of romance and nonconformity, Heather Angelika Dooley has been writing anthems of love-and-war as long as she has known the alphabet. Her poetry is naked and identifiable. Each work synchronizes the contusion of a broken heart and, yet, each has a hauntingly kindhearted verve that makes you want to understand such sense of self, or know this fresh and clever writer for yourself.
Heather Angelika is now a freelance artist with a myriad of fortes and faces. After years as a scenic artist, dancer, model, and deejay, Heather Angelika now lives in the Old South, with her daughter, philosophizing her memoirs into a story of your life. She's a poet bound to be a clairvoyant for the era and, even still, remains clandestine and modest in hers. She spends most of her time in coffee houses with her journals and laptop that has worn off lettering on the keypad. Heather Angelika's first love affair was with words, without breaking up with words, she began another affair with metaphors. Now her nucleus of symbolisms will become your new adages.
Fans of her poetry had these things to say about her writing:
"A great ebbtide of humble prose did she grace this world with unselfishly."
"Just when your readers think you have reached your plateau, you write something like this book. Mucho Grande Props!"
"Imagine poetry slam at half-speed, slowed down enough for the rest of us to contemplate and quietly hear her side of the story."
"You make all other that come before you look like infidels. I see great things coming your way. Thanks again for sharing your talent!"
"You have always been able to stir the deepest of emotions in your readers, and that is the trademark of a good poet."
"You’re a person that knows how to cheer people up, but does not have to.
Your kindness is beyond good will! Your loyal subject...."
"First-class wit and superb wisdom. This is a book of philosophy on placement and existence. This has a strong voice that screams with poetic vigor. Oh, my God! You hit all the high notes. I have to say I simply love it. A tour de force, indeed."
"That shows us that you're not just a writer writing for the sake of writing itself; you're a writer who uses your abilities to fictionalize actuality to the point that we have to step back and quiz ourselves. That's talent, Heather."
"Congrats on another in a long line of impressive work. It's almost like there is no stopping you. If you keep this up, other poets are going to get jealous!"
"I almost want to get a stick and poke the wound to make it hurt to hurt (him) because he hurt you.(I've never protected someone else in a poem before) I love the way you use so many metaphors and intertwine them together like gauze and blood... Oh- and you have the image of salt mixed in the wound. Ouch.'
"I want to use words like: defiant, poignant, confessional, and confrontational."
"You are always doing these clever things in your work, these little secret codes and subliminal messages. Always thought-provoking and yes, certainly witty, I love your 'hep wit', and how you can say what you want to say without giving a damn the consequence. So fiesty. So real. I love you! You're just BRILLIANT."
"Hands that join...Being so thin... You take things to the next level! I like the way words flow from your mind and are set to parchment!"
"Your way with words is something to behold with beauty."
"It is about being in the moment with love and heartache, and that uneasy feeling when troubled ghosts from the past catch up the present."
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Title:
"Don't Rub Salt in the Heartbreak"
Release Date: February/March of 2007!
ISBN# 978-0-9789386-5-9
pp. 84
Publisher: Lucy Rose Publishing, LLC
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Don’t Rub Salt in the Heartbreak by Heather Angelika Dooley is a treasure trove of poetry about letting go of constants and the growing pains of womanhood. This is a book about how true love can make even the wisest of people learning impaired when it comes to the heart. This is written artwork by a literary artist who is lovesick about music, nature, parenthood, philosophy, psychology, and her soul mate who rubbed salt in her heartbreak. Heather Angelika Dooley plays with words like a Magnus—she casts a spell on you through her spellbinding way of spelling out your deepest cognitions. This book is a balladry of profoundness, pansophy, and yet utter unmasking of the soul. This poet gives all new meaning to: Wordsmith. You’ll believe her. You’ll feel her. You’ll fall in love with her command of language and sovereignty of symbolic skill. Beyond strength, this masterful metrical composition is true and the poet is a spirit of spirit.
Heather Angelika Dooley’s poetry is romantically raw, skinned, stripped, and even sanguinary at times. Yet, at the very same time, it is sweet-tempered, silver-toned in simile and metaphor, not to mention all-powerfully identifiable. This lyrical book will stir and impress you. It is dauntless and gutsy, all the while full of equally brave vulnerability and selfless confessions. There are so many open-handed tender spots within the body of this collection of work, as well as the author. Heather Angelika Dooley does not hold back for the sake of modesty, she humbly submits and admits her submissiveness to heartbreak. Within her lack of reserve reveals the grit and inner strength of true courage of heart. Just some of the things that Heather Angelika Dooley tries to resolve in Don’t Rub Salt in the Heartbreak are: toxic entanglements, the witch hunt for personal demons, a blind alley walked down by blinded love, the waking of hibernating dreams, the sublime saving grace of nature, and the foolhardiness of being a fool in love with a fool. No matter age, gender, race, or creed, realist, idealist, optimist, or pessimist, this book will grip you and stay with you in your heart and soul—love, heartbreak, and soul-searching are universal life inquisitions. The author, Heather Angelika Dooley, only asks that YOU, the reader, read this book with all of yours.
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Previously Published Book(s):
Title:
He Said He Wanted to Die with Me Now I Don't Even Have His Phone Number
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Trade Paperback, 100 Pages, Be-Mused Publications, March 2004
Author:
Dooley, Heather Angelika
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ISBN:
0974076309
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Who I'd like to meet:
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William Cullen Bryant
May Swenson
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allen Poe
Stan Rice
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The most important dream of all is God's dream for you.
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In fulfilling this dream, you become the embodiment of love.
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As you make God's dream for you a reality, you will find the peace that abides within and the light of peace will emanate from your soul.
Oh the joy of sweet surrender The Star of Destiny can seem so far away But if we open like the petals of a flower in sunlight We may bask in the glow of its heavenly rays
Let your dream be God's dream for you and may the still small voice within be your inspiration, conscience, teacher and guide.
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