Night Radio

Informationen zum Autor Kim Young teaches creative writing and composition at Moorpark College and edits Chaparral , an online journal featuring poetry from Southern California. Her poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, MiPOesias, Pebble Lake Review , and other journals. She holds an MA from California State University Northridge and an MFA from Bennington College, where she received a Jane Kenyon Scholarship in poetry. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. Klappentext Winner of the 2011 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry this volume is set in L.A. and excavates the kidnapping and sexual assault of a young girl and the resulting trauma Zusammenfassung Set against the sprawling backdrop of Los Angeles! Night Radio excavates the kidnapping and sexual assault of a young girl and the resulting layers of trauma exacted upon her and her family. Working within the paradox of the insufficiency of language and the necessity of expression! these poems elevate overwhelming experiences into near-mythic narrative.

Product details

• Authors: Kim Young
• Publisher: The University of Utah Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2012
• EAN: 9781607812050
• ISBN: 978-1-60781-205-0
• Series: Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetr; Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetr; Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama