Long Devotion - Poets Writing Motherhood

About the author

Emily Pérez (Editor)
EMILY PÉREZ is an English and gender studies instructor and grade-level dean at Colorado Academy. She is the author of What Flies Want, winner of the Iowa Prize; House of Sugar, House of Stone; and the chapbooks Backyard Migration Route and Made and Unmade. She lives in Denver, Colorado.

Nancy Reddy (Editor)
NANCY REDDY is associate professor of writing and first-year studies at Stockton University. She is the author of Pocket Universe; Double Jinx, a 2014 winner of the National Poetry Series; and the chapbook Acadiana. She lives in Collingswood, New Jersey.

Summary

The Long Devotion is a collection of poems, essays, and writing prompts that celebrates motherhood and creates a space, as poet Molly Spencer has written, to “tell an unlovely truth about family life and not have to take it back.”The poets in this book represent and describe a wide range of experiences.

Product details

• Authors: Camille T. Dungy, Camille T. Smith Dungy, Carmen Gimenez Smith
• Assisted by: Emily Perez (Editor), Emily Pérez (Editor), Nancy Reddy (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780820360546
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-6054-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama