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Poetry. Harvard Review says of Dara Wier's poetry, "Recalling at moments thephilosophical comedy of Wallace Stevens and Wislawa Szymborska, many of Wier'scolloquial stanzas draw a reader away from a recognizable world into one in which women waltz with bears, houseflies chat with colonels, and the absence of sound makes a material presence" DARA WIER is the author of seven previous collections of poems, most recently Voyages in English and Our Master Plan (Carnegie Mellon). Dara Wier has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the American Poetry Review. She lives in Amherst where she teaches at the University of Massachusetts.
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Dara Wier is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently Remnants of Hannah (Wave Books, 2006) and Reverse Rapture (Verse Press, 2005). She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. She lives in Massachusetts, where she teaches and directs the MFA writing program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Summary
Dara Wier's poems call to mind "the philosophical comedy of Wallace Stevens and Wislawa Szymborska ...[and] draw a reader away from a recognizable world into one in which women waltz with bears, houseflies chat with colonels, and the absence of sound makes a material presence."-Harvard Review
