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In the tempered dark : contemporary poets transcending elegy / edited by Lisa Fay Coutley.

Van Pelt Library PS617 .I5 2023
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Coutley, Lisa Fay, editor.
Baker, David, writer of foreword.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American poetry--21st century.
American poetry.
Grief--Poetry.
Grief.
Genre:
Poetry.
Physical Description:
403 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
[New York] Black Lawrence Press 2023.
Summary:
"Historically poets have explored no two themes more than love and grief because they are opposite sides of the same emotional coin that we will all experience in unique and often unexplainable ways. While other anthologies validate the necessity of the elegy, none examine the relationship between the body in grief and the body of the poem a poet crafts to recreate an individual, visceral experience of grief. By pairing contemporary poems with micro-essays, wherein each poet considers briefly the connection between their included poem(s) and their corresponding grief, In the Tempered Dark initiates a dialogue designed to engage teachers, students, readers, and writers. This collection doesn't instruct poets how to craft grief poems but illuminates the bond between bodies in grief and bodies of poems. In the Tempered Dark brings together contemporary work and voices that demonstrate the range of grief which feels urgent to twenty-first century poets from diverse backgrounds, at different stages in their careers, confronting assorted losses through various styles and forms. Poems coupled with micro-essays offer intimate and inside insights appealing to novices and veterans of all genres. This book will allow readers to identify with poets and poems to grieve and to heal, and it will also consider the relationship between poet and poem. Such an examination of content and form will show how poets manipulate craft, giving voice to what can seem unsayable, transcending elegy."-- Publisher description.
Contents:
Foreword by David Baker
Introduction by Lisa Fay Coutley
Erin Adair-Hodges
Susan Aizenberg
Rebecca Aronson
Ruth Awad
Carol Barrett
S. Erin Batiste
Sandra Beasley
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Malachi Black
Elijah Burrell
Janet Burroway
Lauren Camp
Victoria Chang
George David Clark
Tiana Clark
Aaron Coleman
Flower Conroy
Lisa Fay Coutley
Jessica Cuello
Ja'net Danielo
Meg Day
Oliver de la Paz
Jaydn Dewald
Sean Thomas Dougherty
Morgan Eklund
Katie Farris
Ariel Francisco
Julie Funderburk
John Gilber
Torrin A. Greathouse
Benjamin Gucciardi
Kat Hayes
Bob Hicok
Chloe Honum
Jay Hopler
Kimberly Johnson
Didi Jackson
Jessica Jacobs
Brionne Janae
Ilya Kaminsky
W. Todd Kaneko
Sharon Kennedy-Nolle
Vandana Khanna
Kathryn Kysar
Anna Leahy
Eugenia Leigh
Muriel Leung
Dana Levin
Aurielle Marie
Molly McCully Brown & Susannah Nevison
Leslie Mcintosh
Kevin Mclellan
Leslie Adrienne Miller
Wayne Miller
Tyler Mills
Jenny Molberg
Berwyn Moore
Jessica Morey-Collins
Simone Muench & Jackie K. White
Lisa Olstein
Emily Pérez
Jeremy Radin
Jenny Sadre-Orafai
Diane Seuss
Praggeta Sharma
Sean Singer
Anthony Sutton
Alexandra Teague
Lynne Thompson
Eric Tran
Nikki Ummel
Angela Voras-Hills
Claire Wahmanholm
Allison Benis White
Phillip B. Williams
Jess Williard
Chelsea Woddard.
Notes:
"Black Lawrence Press"
ISBN:
162557066X
9781625570666
OCLC:
1418894911
Publisher Number:
90101290878

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