Uprising
Autor Michele Battisteen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 feb 2014
"This is an extraordinary collection, and its strain of defiant, blood-stirring gypsy music is the tonic you've been looking for."—Albert Godbarth
and Budapest lives in sectioned-off coal cellars, blackdust clogging the thin sieve of skin.Evening swells, sirens beating on six inches of windowlike autumn breaking down on barren streets.Jutka inhales on the decrescendo, the baby at her breastagain, kicking her ribs—a soft metronomemarking the rise and fall of mechanical howl,too slow for any melody but dirge and it is easyto forget that death is a mournful thing.
and Budapest lives in sectioned-off coal cellars, blackdust clogging the thin sieve of skin.Evening swells, sirens beating on six inches of windowlike autumn breaking down on barren streets.Jutka inhales on the decrescendo, the baby at her breastagain, kicking her ribs—a soft metronomemarking the rise and fall of mechanical howl,too slow for any melody but dirge and it is easyto forget that death is a mournful thing.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781937854942
ISBN-10: 1937854949
Pagini: 115
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Black Lawrence Press
ISBN-10: 1937854949
Pagini: 115
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Black Lawrence Press
Notă biografică
Michele Battiste's first full-length collection, Ink for an Odd Cartography, was a finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2009. She is also the author of four chapbooks, the most recent of which is Lineage (Binge Press, 2012). Recent work can be found in American Poetry Review, Anti-, Mid-American Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Women's Studies Quarterly among other journals.
She has received grants and awards from AWP, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Senate, the Center for the American West, and the Poetry Society of Virginia. In 2006, Battiste received a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant to conduct research in Budapest, Hungary for Uprising. In 2007, she was awarded a Blue Mountain Center Residency to complete the first draft of the book.
Battiste has taught poetry writing for Wichita State University (WSU), the Prison Arts Program in Hutchinson, KS, Gotham Writers' Workshops, and the national writing program Teen Ink. The 2004 MFA Poetry Fellow at WSU, she now lives in Boulder, CO where she works, writes, and wades in the creek.
She has received grants and awards from AWP, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Senate, the Center for the American West, and the Poetry Society of Virginia. In 2006, Battiste received a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant to conduct research in Budapest, Hungary for Uprising. In 2007, she was awarded a Blue Mountain Center Residency to complete the first draft of the book.
Battiste has taught poetry writing for Wichita State University (WSU), the Prison Arts Program in Hutchinson, KS, Gotham Writers' Workshops, and the national writing program Teen Ink. The 2004 MFA Poetry Fellow at WSU, she now lives in Boulder, CO where she works, writes, and wades in the creek.
Descriere
These poems document one family’s struggle to stay together and alive in the days just before the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.