The Truant Lover

Zusatztext Spare! pastoral! intimate! and probing! these musically exacting poems offer arresting insights: "Here's a world for today: // killing & not dying / fantastically! not lying." They question! invent! refer! divert! take flying risks. They are fluid! considered! dignified. They celebrate the human eye! mind! and tongue. It is a joy to have them in print.-Olga Broumas Informationen zum Autor JULIET PATTERSON is the author of The Truant Lover, winner of the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize, and the chapbooks Epilogue and Dirge. As a community activist and artist, Patterson has worked on a number of collaborative projects related to place-making and the environment. She lives in Minneapolis with her partner and son. Klappentext Juliet Patterson's first collection of poems, The Truant Lover, selected by Jean Valentine, is a pastiche of American voices, a well of poems with passages that hint and nod at past poets while remaining wholly their own. Zusammenfassung Juliet Patterson's first collection of poems! The Truant Lover! selected by Jean Valentine! is a pastiche of American voices! a well of poems with passages that hint and nod at past poets while remaining wholly their own.

Product details

• Authors: Juliet Patterson, Juliet/ Valentine Patterson, Patterson Juliet
• Publisher: Small press distribution
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9780976718529
• ISBN: 978-0-9767185-2-9
• No. of pages: 74
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 6 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; POETRY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Poetry / poems by individual poets