In Advance of All Parting

Flashes and facets of a life seen through the prism of older age, clear-sighted and sardonic.

About the author

Ansie Baird holds degrees from Vassar College and SUNY Amherst where she received her MA in English and won first prize in the University's Academy of American Poets contest. She is Poet in Residence and a part-time English teacher at The Buffalo Seminary, a non-sectarian secondary school in Buffalo, where she has taught for the past thirty-one years.

Foreword

advanced review copies to major and local media ads in literary periodicals poet has substantial magazine publications "In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems give us a profound glimpse into how the events of a life can form a center of gravity that fixes the self in its force field. There's a cold, truth-telling clarity about them that makes them as unsettling as they are beautiful. Ansie Baird has created a richly-drawn world in which this elemental drama plays out, and the result is vivid, startling poems in which pain has left its indelible tracks."   --Chase Twichell

Product details

• Authors: Ansie Baird
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2009
• EAN: 9781935210092
• ISBN: 978-1-935210-09-2
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 229 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 200 g
• Series: White Pine Press Poetry Prize
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies