Dresses from the Old Country - Paperback
by Laura Read
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Availability:In StockContributor:Laura ReadSeries:American Poets ContinuumPublish date:2018-10-09Pages:104
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BOA EditionsISBN-13:9781942683667ISBN-10:1942683669UPC:9781942683667Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Women AuthorsBook Topic:FamilySize:8.90 x 5.80 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCQEBFGZJ7
In Laura Read's second poetry collection, the former poet laureate of Spokane, WA, weaves past and present together to create a portrait of a life in progress. As the speaker looks back on her life, she exists simultaneously as all the selves she has ever been: a lost child, a lonely adolescent, a teacher, a daughter, a friend, a wife, a mother--a woman continually shaped and reshaped by memory and experience. Deeply rooted in a particular time and place, Read's poems strip away the illusion of the passage of time as they reveal how we are all wearing "dresses from the old country."
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BOA EditionsISBN-13:9781942683667ISBN-10:1942683669UPC:9781942683667Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Women AuthorsBook Topic:FamilySize:8.90 x 5.80 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCQEBFGZJ7
Laura Read was born in New York City and has lived most of her life in Spokane, WA. She is the author of Dresses from the Old Country (BOA Editions, 2018), Instructions for My Mother's Funeral (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry), and the chapbook The Chewbacca on Hollywood Boulevard Reminds Me of You (winner of the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award, 2011). A recipient of a Washington State Artists Trust Grant, a Florida Review Prize for Poetry, and the Crab Creek Review Prize for Poetry, Laura presents regularly at literary festivals and conferences throughout the Northwest, including GetLit!, Write on the Sound, Litfuse, and the Port Townsend Writers Conference. Laura served as Spokane's Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, and she currently teaches at Spokane Falls Community College.
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