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Poetry. This is the fourth collection by Kathleen Peirce, whose earlier work won the Associated Writing Programs Prize, the Iowa Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She teaches at Texas State University.Of this book, the poet Jean Valentine has written: "Startling in their mystery, these poems are entirely original: abstract and passionate, sensual and otherworldly, trance-like and exciting. They are told through a 'we,' perhaps all of us human beings, remembering; yet strangely, too, each of us experiencing everything alone. The Ardors is a book that takes us beyond ourselves, beyond our workaday bodies and souls."
About the author
The youngest of five daughters, Kathleen Peirce was born in Moline, IL, and grew up in Rock Island. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa in 1988, the same year as the birth and adoption of her son from Seoul, Korea. She lives with him and assorted animals, and teaches at Texas State University.
