A Field Guide to Human Emotions - Herman, Mimi
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There's a field guide for everything in the natural world. Why not for human emotions? Now there is. In A Field Guide to Human Emotions, poet and fiction writer Mimi Herman offers readers a handy, alphabetized guide to their daily emotions. Fusing figurative language and wit, she offers definitions for everything from "Anxiety" to the classic "Trigger Mechanism," stopping along the way for "Hope," "Longing" and "Passion." This collection will inspire you to say, "That's exactly how I felt, but I never knew how to say it." From "Anxiety," which "sets its watch ahead/by at least a minute, though…mehr

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There's a field guide for everything in the natural world. Why not for human emotions? Now there is. In A Field Guide to Human Emotions, poet and fiction writer Mimi Herman offers readers a handy, alphabetized guide to their daily emotions. Fusing figurative language and wit, she offers definitions for everything from "Anxiety" to the classic "Trigger Mechanism," stopping along the way for "Hope," "Longing" and "Passion." This collection will inspire you to say, "That's exactly how I felt, but I never knew how to say it." From "Anxiety," which "sets its watch ahead/by at least a minute, though often weeks," to "Condescension," which "loves an echo" to "Need," which offers to "burrow into the milliseconds/you leave behind," these poems allow you to understand emotional states at the exact moment you find yourself re-experiencing them. In A Field Guide Human Emotions, you'll find both understanding and self-help. Each page offers a shortcut to that "Aha!" moment we're all trying to find. Herman's passion for personification and her ear for the delights of language make her poetry accessible, rather than an exclusive clubhouse that requires a secret password to be admitted. Open the door, come on in, and discover who we are and why we do what we do.
Autorenporträt
MIMI HERMAN is a writer, Kennedy Center teaching artist and member of the AWP Board of Directors. The 2017 North Carolina Piedmont Laureate, she is also a Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellow and an alumna of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Mimi has performed her fiction and poetry at Why There are Words in Sausalito, Symphony Space in New York, and Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, Crab Orchard Review, The Hollins Critic, Prime Number and other journals. She is co-director of Writeaways writing workshops in France, Italy and New Mexico. You can find her at www.mimiherman.com and www.writeaways.com.