Miriam Feder explores love’s conflicting colors

By PH

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Performance artist and writer Miriam Feder has published a lovely and elegant small book she calls “About Love; the bittersweet heart,” which compiles the text of a dozen of her sensual, sometimes saucy and poignant written works, which are also pieces she either has or will perform.

Anyone who caught Feder’s one-woman show at Portland’s Hipbone Studio last October—a collection of pieces she called “The Vestibule,” about life’s transitions—will likely want this little book for themselves and to share as a gift for a special friend or loved one.

The table of contents includes titles such as Love’s Spirit, Star Stud, Passion, Making a Lover and Rejection. That pretty well summarizes where the book takes us.

Along the way there are some emotionally stirring roadside attractions guaranteed to touch one’s memories, and perhaps one’s libido, in a very satisfying way.

Both poetry and prose comprise this book. Even in her prose Feder writes with the lyrical soul of a poet. Consider this from the prose piece called Passion:

I enjoy this sweet, erotic, love-soaked slant on the fleeting light and last roses of fall. And I’m grateful to you for making me the lover I’ve always wanted to be: received; expansive and cherished. I’m surrounded by fountains of discovery and rediscovery; source and subject of so much passion.

There’s an awful lot of that in Feder’s book.

The book, priced at $11, is available online at http://miriamfeder, where one can also listen to podcasts of Feder speaking her work. The book is also for sale at Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, and Gumbo, a gift shop at 3636-B N. Mississippi Ave.