Entering the House of Awe
Susanna Childress
(Author)
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Description
Poetry. "Readers familiar with Susanna Childress's Jagged with Love will recognize her distinctive voice in these poems: her nerve, her honest, quirky, irreverent, immediate and embodied yearning that rushes, wordy, right up to the ragged margins! In this second collection, new formal approaches bring breath and space to the lines, even delicacy sometimes, but these fine poems move with no less urgency because they are compelled by her signature quest for truthfulness. This search refuses perfectionism and mere aestheticism, yet admits beauty en route, as Childress claims, There needs to be no right word / There needs to be a wide hole / a whole mouth / where the right word / isn't" Julia Spicher Kasdorf."
Product Details
Price
$18.00
Publisher
New Issues Poetry and Prose
Publish Date
October 03, 2011
Pages
85
Dimensions
7.04 X 9.82 X 0.29 inches | 0.52 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781936970001
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About the Author
SUSANNA CHILDRESS holds a Master's from The University of Texas at Austin and a PhD from Florida State University. Her first book, Jagged with Love, was awarded the Brittingham Prize in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin and the Devil's Kitchen Reading Award from the University of Southern Illinois-Carbondale. She has received an AWP Intro Journals Award, the National Career Award in Poetry from the National Society of Arts and Letters, and a Lilly post-doctoral fellowship. She lives in Holland, Michigan.
Reviews
"Childress requires our trust to enter this book, yanking us around blind corners, pulling up short and changing scenery until she finally unveils the gripping and guttural truth that leaves us in jaw-wide wonder."--Kristin George Bagdanov "Ruminate"
