Ringer: Poems

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$18.00  $16.74
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
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Pages
96
Dimensions
5.8 X 8.8 X 0.5 inches | 0.35 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780822965954
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About the Author
Rebecca Lehmann is the author of the poetry collections Ringer, winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and Between the Crackups. Her writing has been featured in the American Poetry Review, the Threepenny Review, NPR's the Slowdown, and other venues. Her debut novel, The Beheading Game, is forthcoming from Crown Publishing. Originally from Door County, Wisconsin, Lehmann teaches creative writing at Saint Mary's College in Indiana and is the founding editor of Couplet Poetry.
Reviews
Lehmann's latest book offers readers a sagacious and kinetic whirlwind of unrest and gratitude for the world.-- "Publisher's Weekly"
[Lehmann's] subjects may be selfhood, womanhood, motherhood, and family, but her tools for understanding them are an accumulated, tactile sense of life lived and the things around us. . . . Indeed, the lists abounding here pile up to create rich poetry that's exact, sculpted, and delivered in a calm, engaged voice.-- "Library Journal Starred Review"
Rebecca Lehmann's Ringer is a beautiful book. There's something propulsive and yearning and broken with sadness in these poems. And ecstatic. And astonished. ('His eyes / were four dozen Canadian geese lifting off a late summer river, all at once.' God I love that!) And loving. And there is something that might put its foot up your ass. All made of a gorgeous racket that will probably make you gasp. By which I mean: be in the world anew. As poetry, if we're lucky, sometimes helps us to be.--Ross Gay
What a great title! It's perfectly true--the whole book rings with surprising images and zingy word-choices, all dedicated to presenting the most mundane things in their truly astonishing particularity. Sharply attuned to issues relating to women--and the ways they've intensified in the current political climate--the work speaks with a fierce and necessary determination infused with an energy not devoid of hope.--Cole Swensen