| A Book of Exquisite Disasters Contributor(s): Spearen, Charlene (Author), Dawes, Kwame (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1611170893 ISBN-13: 9781611170894 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2011052334 |
| Series: Palmetto Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.27" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.33 lbs) 92 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Book of Exquisite Disasters, the first book-length poetry collection from Charlene Spearen, is an exploration of a multifaceted identity forged through moments spent as a daughter, sister, woman, and poet. A nimble wordsmith and unique spirit, Spearen plays with language as if syllables and words are musical notes that in the end creates an exquisite song erupting with mysterious clarity. In these idiosyncratic poems, she hones in with grace and vigor on perplexing subjects from her life experiences and uses the act of writing and creation to propel herself forward on a journey to question and witness humankind's beauty and suffering as an inherent song of the world. These poems represent a leap of faith, the courageous act of letting go and taking risks while remaining reverent to a sense of being a member of a family, of being a woman. In heartfelt narratives Spearen traverses myriad landscapes populated with people real and imagined and infused throughout with the many--and often familiar--exquisite disasters that confront each of us as human beings. |
Contributor Bio(s): Spearen, Charlene: - Charlene Spearen is a professor of English and chair of the Humanities Division at Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina. Poet in residence at the Columbia Museum of Art, Spearen served as the associate director of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. Her work has appeared in several journals, The Southern Poetry Anthology: South Carolina, and the 2011 Uphook Press Anthology, -gape-seed-. Her chapbook, Without Possessions, won the 2006 Stepping Stone Press Editors Series Award.Dawes, Kwame: - A prolific author and editor in myriad genres, Kwame Dawes has written sixteen collections of poetry, most recently Back of Mount Peace and Wheels. Dawes won an Emmy Award for his poetry and reporting on HIV/AIDS in his native Jamaica, and he is also the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Forward Poetry Prize, and the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Dawes is the Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and a Chancellor's Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. |