Leda's Daughters - Berlin, K. Avvirin
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In K. Avvirin Berlin's debut collection, Leda's Daughters, the lives of working women are spun by able hands into myth. These are salt-of-the-earth poems that traverse and transgress the temporal, re-envisioning African American and Native American women's history as a history of poetics. Like the capacious minds of the women it celebrates, the collection moves between the classical and modern worlds, calling out for affiliation and seeking the elusive place where the beloved dwells. These poems bear witness to the minutiae and small miracles that make up laboring women's lives. Winner of the…mehr

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In K. Avvirin Berlin's debut collection, Leda's Daughters, the lives of working women are spun by able hands into myth. These are salt-of-the-earth poems that traverse and transgress the temporal, re-envisioning African American and Native American women's history as a history of poetics. Like the capacious minds of the women it celebrates, the collection moves between the classical and modern worlds, calling out for affiliation and seeking the elusive place where the beloved dwells. These poems bear witness to the minutiae and small miracles that make up laboring women's lives. Winner of the 2023 Jean Feldman Poetry Award from the Washington Writers' Publishing House.
Autorenporträt
K. Avvirin Berlin is a poet, scholar, and painter. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review Online and Women's Studies Quarterly. Berlin's scholarly article on Sojourner Truth and Black feminism was recently published in Nineteenth-Century Literature. Her reviews have been printed in Women's Review of Books. Avvirin's visual artwork appears on the cover of this collection. Raised in Harlem, she lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with her husband and their two cats.