Women's voices offering an intimate view into women's lives
Lizzie Borden in Love, a collection of poems by national bestselling author Julianna Baggott, offers poignant commentary in the voices of women as varied as Mary Todd Lincoln and Monica Lewinsky. The poems often focus on a particular moment in life: Katherine Hepburn discovers the dead body of her brother in an attic, or painter Mary Cassatt mourns the failure of her eyesight. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes ecstatic, the poems in this collection never fail the trust of the subjects of their intimate...
Women's voices offering an intimate view into women's lives
Lizzie Borden in Love, a collection of poems by national bestsellin...
One of the poems in Jon Tribble's Natural State observes that "the finest / moment of our lives may not matter at all." That's a devastating truth, but Tribble's poems about growing up in Arkansas make every moment he renders matter, and matter deeply. Natural State may be Tribble's first collection, but it's as polished, mature, and wise as most poets' fourth or fifth, and it not only matters, its publication is one of contemporary poetry's finest moments. - David Jauss, author of You Are Not Here and Glossolalia: New & Selected Stories
One of the poems in Jon Tribble's Natural State observes that "the finest / moment of our lives may not matter at all." That's a devastating truth, bu...