Melissa Kwasny

Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today

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Produktbeschreibung

This is Melissa Kwasny¿s sixth book of poems. Her previous collections include Pictograph, Reading Novalis in Montana, and The Nine Senses. She is also the author of Earth Recitals: Essays on Image and Vision. She has won both the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award and the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780295742441
• ISBN-10: 0295742445
• Artikelnr.: 48139527

Autorenporträt

Melissa Kwasny is the author of six collections of poems, including  Pictograph, Reading Novalis in Montana, and The Nine Senses, which contains a set of poems that won the Poetry Society of America's 2009 Cecil Hemley Memorial Award. A portion of Pictograph received the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, judged by Ed Roberson. Kwasny also has a nonfiction book, Putting on the Dog: Animals and Our Clothing, forthcoming from Trinity University Press. She has edited multiple anthologies, including Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry, 1800-1950 and, with M. L. Smoker,  I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights. Widely published in journals and anthologies, Kwasny's work has appeared in Ploughshares, Boston Review, and The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral. She lives outside of Jefferson City, Montana, in the Elkhorn Mountains.

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Contents
The Hide and Skin Handbook
1. The Deer People
2. Another Letter to the Soul
3. The Blue Heron People
4. Another Letter to the Soul
5. The Hawk People
6. Another Letter to the Soul
7. The Creek People
8. Another Letter to the Soul
Notes and Acknowledgments
About the Author