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Availability:In StockContributor:Liza Katz DuncanPublish date:2023-04-02Pages:80
Language:EnglishPublisher:Autumn House PressISBN-13:9781637680681ISBN-10:1637680686UPC:9781637680681Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Women AuthorsBook Topic:PlacesSize:8.75 x 6.11 x 0.23 inchesWeight:0.291Product ID:SCMHEFW31N
A tender poetry collection considering home, family, and personal and ecological loss.

Liza Katz Duncan's debut collection is a poignant exploration of the unpredictable shifts that shape our lives. Given considers the notions of home and family and how to survive the changes and losses associated with both. Duncan conjures her home, the New Jersey Shore, in clear and unsentimental lines: "Call of the grackle, / whine of the turkey vulture. Blighted clams, // raw and red in their half-shells." Duncan's poems also explore the devastation brought to this place and its community by Superstorm Sandy and the continued impacts of climate change.

Interwoven into this thread is the narrator's miscarriage; the parallels between the desecrated landscape and the personal catastrophe further contribute to the layers of tenderness in this collection, as Duncan urges us to remember and to witness. Despite tragedy and loss, Given is imbued with persistent, dogged hope, showing how survival persists amongst the wreckage, and from this debris is a path towards healing our grief.

Given was the winner of 2022 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize in Poetry.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Autumn House PressISBN-13:9781637680681ISBN-10:1637680686UPC:9781637680681Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Women AuthorsBook Topic:PlacesSize:8.75 x 6.11 x 0.23 inchesWeight:0.291Product ID:SCMHEFW31N
Liza Katz Duncan's poems have appeared in AGNI, About Place, Poetry Northwest, National Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She has received support for her work from Poets & Writers, the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference, and the Tucson Festival of Books, and she teaches English as a second language in New Jersey public schools.

Publisher: Autumn House Press

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