| Drone Contributor(s): Garcia, Kim (Author) |
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ISBN: 1935218409 ISBN-13: 9781935218401 Publisher: Backwaters Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry |
| Series: Backwaters Prize in Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.26" H x 6" W x 9" (0.41 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: DRONE is a lyric meditation on modern warfare, in our technological and digital age. Written from a variety of perspectives and personas, it explores the human, animal, personal, and domestic aspects of the wars being fought by the U.S. for incomprehensible reasons with indefinable outcomes. Swift and wide ranging, these poems explore experiences of soldiers, military families, prisoners, immigrants, and more. "Kim Garcia's DRONE imagines the contemporary paradox of war in which we can pilot an 'unpiloted' aircraft. These compassionate poems reveal as much concern for our presumed enemies as for those listening and watching at a distance. We sense a great humanity behind this beautifully crafted book-length meditation centered on a woman's perspective on war." -Heid E. Erdrich, 2015 Backwaters Prize Judge "This is a necessary book of meditation, of prayer. Kim Garcia moves through innumerable facets of our American lives in order to understand what has happened to her soul, in a time of drones. For drones are what hover around every poem here. Silently and unseen. When we tend our gardens, work our jobs, lawns, fields, when we dream or listen to our children or say our prayers alone or in church. The drones are always 'somewhere else.'" -Fady Joudah |
Contributor Bio(s): Garcia, Kim: - Kim Garcia is the author of Tales of the Sisters, winner of the 2015 Sow's Ear Chapbook Contest, and Madonna Magdalene from Turning Point Books. She has received the 2014 Lynda Hull Memorial Prize, an AWP Intro Writing Award, a Hambidge Fellowship, and an Oregon Individual Artist Grant. Her poems have been featured on The Writer's Almanac, and have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Mississippi Review, Nimrod, and Subtropics. She teaches creative writing at Boston College. |