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Fire Pond

  • ISBN-13: 9780874809534
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS
  • By Jessica Garratt
  • Price: AUD $39.99
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  • Local release date: 28/06/2009
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 152.00mm) 88 pages Weight: 145g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry was inaugurated in 2003 to honor the late poet, a nationally recognized writer and former professor at the University of Utah, and is sponsored by the University of Utah Press and the University of Utah Department of English. Fire Pond is the 2008 prizewinning volume selected by this year's judge, Medbh McGuckian, poet, editor, and teacher from Belfast.
Jessica Garratt grew up in rural Maryland. A doctoral candidate, she currently teaches and holds a Creative Writing Fellowship at the University of Missouri. She has also received fellowships from the Michener Center for Writers and the MacDowell Colony. Her poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Michigan Quarterly Review, North American Review, and other journals. This is her first book.
Abstract I. Cogito Without Answer This Foundation The State of Things En Route Transmission Neighborhood Mirador Home after a weekend with old friends Permanence Leaving Sykesville Climate of Refrain Rotation Farewell! II. Fire Pond III. Woman drives past, crying Infidelity First Flight Elegy The End of Things True North Self-Preservation Ode Epilogue Pilgrim Things said (me & others, dreams & waking, yesterday & years ago): An Exorcism Expression Brooklyn, February Fascicle Notes Acknowledgments
"Jessica Garratt's Fire Pond sifts through raw experience and suffering, toward acceptance and understanding of a deep nature. Garratt's philosophical curiosity and openness are counterpoints to her refreshing wit and humor. She narrates her private heartbreaks candidly but without self pity or narcissism, while infusing her work with an Emersonian sense of place as sacred."-Medbh McGuckian "These poems are beautifully constructed handbooks full of clues toward the meaning of ourselves and our fate in the world and they are written in such a way as to show, unhidden, the steps the poet took in order to seek that knowledge...We can surely look forward to new and exciting work from this poet as she develops."-Christopher Crawford, Gently Read Literature
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