Marjorie Welish, the esteemed poet who selected Michelle Taransky's manuscript for the Omnidawn prize, explains that these poems "animate the economies and concerns of our lives. Barn Burned, Then implicates Objectivism in this imagining, to create poems of the conglomerate of bank and barn--words shown to be made of contingent cultural forces." In terse, tautly crafted poems that are dynamically contemporary, Taranksy assesses our cultural moment with unrelenting courage and candor.
Marjorie Welish, the esteemed poet who selected Michelle Taransky's manuscript for the Omnidawn prize, explains that these poems "animate the economie...
In a woods where bodger and cabinet maker are at work, Michelle Taransky's second collection of poems, Sorry Was In The Woods is that landscape where perspective is not singular, where waiting, worrying, watching, and recording are able to both arrange and derange our understanding of place. Taransky's subject matter suggests our pressing need to face directly into the reality of each moment, and to question what it means to be moral in this troubled world of ecological and cultural calamity. Yet her surprising language use and references will invite her readers to walk with her through the...
In a woods where bodger and cabinet maker are at work, Michelle Taransky's second collection of poems, Sorry Was In The Woods is that landscape where ...
