To the New World |
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Valerie Duff |
ISBN: 978-1-907056-28-4 Page Count: 76 Publication Date: Sunday, February 28, 2010 Cover Artwork: Canvas-Wrapped Hull, Boatyard Series © 2008 Emily Hiestand www.ehiestand.com |
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About this BookThis is poetry full of absolute physical celebration - galley stoves, flour, slabs of meat, pollens, a tarnished boat - a gift, really. By turns these poems are violent and sweet, representing many journeys. They are surreal, joyous, startling, and fierce. Cheryl Follon, author of All Your Talk "I am only here in passing," writes Valerie Duff in "Urban Blue," and this line could stand as a motto for her passage to the "new world" delineated in the sharp-edged, ironic, and canny poems of this collection. This is a book of liminality, of speakers at emotional and spiritual thresholds of all sorts, certain only that there is nothing absolutely lasting. Thus this is also a book of departures and arrivals, of highways and sea-lanes, of taxis, gates, and doorways, and what is sometimes glimpsed in the rearview mirror. Here, in other words, is a vivid portrait of how we move and shift and pass our days, each heading for better or worse to our own new worlds. Fred Marchant, author of The Looking House
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Author Biography
Valerie Duff is the poetry editor for Salamander Magazine, and she has received St. Botolph and Massachusetts Cultural Council grants for her poetry. She earned her masters degree in creative writing from Boston University and Trinity College, Dublin. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Harvard Review, PN Review AGNI, Zoland Poetry: an Annual of Poems, Translations and Interviews, and elsewhere; her book reviews have appeared in Salamander, Bostonia, and PN Review. Her short play, "The Means Which Enable Me to Work," was performed in an Arlington New Plays Festival in 2004. Valerie is a freelance writer and editor for Bedford/St. Martin's Press. She lives in Boston with her husband and two children.
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Read a sample from this bookBackwoods |
ReviewsInterview: Valerie Duff interviewed by Marnie Verger for "The Common" (September 1st, 2014) Read the interview here> |