Ridiculous Light: Poems
Valencia Robin
(Author)
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Description
In Ridiculous Light, Valencia Robin captures the everyday and the ecstatic in a voice all her own. Through poems that live at the intersection of history and experience, she captures the joys and tumult of being alive. She is a storyteller of the first order, a documenter not just of memories but of how we remember.
Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
Persea Books
Publish Date
March 12, 2019
Pages
64
Dimensions
5.9 X 8.8 X 0.4 inches | 0.2 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780892554966
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About the Author
Valencia Robin is a poet and visual artist. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The St. Petersburg Review, Black Renaissance Noire, Kweli, The Cortland Review, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. She is a Cave Canem Fellow and the 2014 winner of the Hocking Hills Festival of Poetry Competition. She holds an MFA in Art & Design from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia where she currently teaches as a third-year post-MFA fellow.
Reviews
These are praise poems for a dark time, musical poems that conjure up stories, transcendent poems to give to your mother, your lover, your friends, yourself.
