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Author
Publisher
Word Works
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Tearing into our ugliness to find beauty, tearing open the "known" to find mystery, the new and muscular voice of poet Amber West exposes our contemporary madness and looks for the cure. First book Hen & God explores the world where poetry is God, where God's "cock crows lightning," and the poem itself declares, "I am God and my ears / are the wings of the world." The scope of suffering that West addresses will take the reader's breath away, but her...
Author
Publisher
Finishing Line Press
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
"In her poems of sharp working-class witness, Amber West extends the territory mapped by Dorianne Laux, Jan Beatty, and Dorothy Allison. Plainspoken about the costs of family loyalty and romantic attachment, West's poems offer fresh insight into the dynamic power of female ties. West is remarkably willing to risk tenderness as well as anger as she articulates her histories of grief and love." -V. Penelope Pelizzon--back cover.
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