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Face Up: A Collection of Outlaw Poems

Face Up: A Collection of Outlaw Poems - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Suzanne Nielsen, Belo Cipriani (Editor), Alison McGhee (Foreword by)Publish date:2022-05-10Pages:84
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oleb BooksISBN-13:9781732312753ISBN-10:1732312753UPC:9781732312753Book Category:Poetry, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, Women Authors, WritingBook Topic:PoetrySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.17 inchesWeight:0.2712Product ID:SCBH462X91

WINNER OF THE 2021 OLEB BOOKS POETRY PRIZE


Face Up: A Collection of Outlaw Poems is a volume of unmistakable power. Defying social expectations, Suzanne Nielsen writes "I was born in the mid-fifties with fists for hands because / in utero / I knew life wasn't fooling around." As she explores recurrent themes of physical illness, depression, and addiction, she demonstrates self-awareness gleaned from a life lived fully.


Suzanne Nielsen's poems are peopled with wry survivors attending to their lives with purpose and humor. A newly sober friend will "jingle his medallion in his pocket / and mimic a canine sense of direction." An adult navigating clinical depression will "climb into bed wearing . . . street clothes that haven't seen the streets for weeks." Relationships form in unexpected ways. Bertha from the Midway "swore to sit on them, / and I swore to watch her back, / and we became best friends for those ten days." In these poems of tenderness and grit, sorrow is always accompanied by wonder.


Language:EnglishPublisher:Oleb BooksISBN-13:9781732312753ISBN-10:1732312753UPC:9781732312753Book Category:Poetry, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, Women Authors, WritingBook Topic:PoetrySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.17 inchesWeight:0.2712Product ID:SCBH462X91
Publisher: Oleb Books

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