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Watson, Ellen, 1950-
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American poetry -- 21st century
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Watson, Ellen, 1950-
American poetry -- 21st century
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Pray me stay eager /
Ellen
Doré
Watson
.
by
Watson
,
Ellen
,
1950-
Alice James Books, c2018.
Call #:
811.6 W338p
Subjects
American poetry -- 21st century
ISBN:
9781938584688 (pbk.)
1938584686 (pbk.)
Description:
95 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents:
Message in a bottle -- The animal with irony -- The night doesn't summarize the day -- Field guide to abstractions -- Ode to pleasure -- If dancing -- Mother going gone -- April Eclogue -- Hungry ghost -- How many nests of what.
Summary:
"A dreamy voice turns dark and gritty as
Ellen
Dore
Watson
interrogates personal purpose in the face of looming mortality. Poems sway comfortably, fluidly through associative discourse, radiating and championing love and adoration, indulging in simple pleasures with high magnitude and deep resonance. These poems are musical and sing in a different register for
Watson
in her ninth collection.
Ellen
Dore
Watson
is the author of four full-length collections of poems, most recently Dogged Hearts from Tupelo Press.
Watson
's journal appearances include APR, Tin House, Orion, Field, Ploughshares and The New Yorker. Among her honors are a Rona Jaffe Writers Award, fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and to Yaddo, and a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship.
Watson
serves as poetry and translation editor of The Massachusetts Review and core faculty at Drew University's Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Poetry and Translation. She is the director of the Poetry Center and the Poetry Concentration at Smith College"--From publisher.
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