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Poetry. Winner of the 2013 Off the Grid Prize. The latest poetry collection by Whitman Award winner Elaine Terranova is her sixth, and it is breathtaking. In pellucid language the poet walks through a kind of "vale of soul making" by re-visioning hours she spent as a child playing dolls with a friend. Terranova weaves her poetics of space by setting the fragile orders of the dollhouse against the realities of family fiction and the terror of a whole world outside where no shelter can be found--all this in exquisite, minimalist music.
About the author
Elaine Terranova is the author of eight collections, including most recently
Rinse (Grid Books, 2023), and two chapbooks. Her work has appeared in a number of literary magazines and anthologies and her translation of Euripides'
Iphigenia at Aulis is part of the Penn Greek Drama Series. Terranova has received the Walt Whitman Award, an NEA, a Pew Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and in 2024, the Maurice English Poetry Award.
