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Instructions for Use - Paperback

by Arlene Demaris
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Availability:In StockContributor:Arlene DemarisTheme:Sex & Gender/Feminine, Topical/Women's InterestPublish date:7/13/2026Pages:90
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Terrapin BooksISBN-13:9781947896925ISBN-10:194789692XUPC:9781947896925Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Women Authors, Subjects & ThemesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.22 inchesWeight:0.132Product ID:SCTYH0J8BZ

Instructions for Use is an unflinching, elegantly crafted debut collection of intensely smart, deeply observant poems, by turns tender and brutal: a meditation on what it means to carry a body with its physical and psychic scars through time. With beauty, humor, and an acrid toughness tonally bringing to mind Louise Glück as well as Henri Cole, Arlene DeMaris writes of perseverance in the face of loss, inheritance and loneliness, childlessness and grief, mortality and the wonderful, ferocious awe of being alive.

-Michael Dumanis

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Terrapin BooksISBN-13:9781947896925ISBN-10:194789692XUPC:9781947896925Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Women Authors, Subjects & ThemesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.22 inchesWeight:0.132Product ID:SCTYH0J8BZ
Demaris, Arlene: - Arlene DeMaris is a poet and a freelance writer specializing in health and wellness. Her poetry has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Connecticut River Review, Maine Review, Radar Poetry, and other literary publications. Her work has also been featured as The Missouri Review's Poem of the Week. The recipient of a 2023 Nutmeg Poetry Award and the 2024 Connecticut Poetry Award, both from the Connecticut Poetry Society, she holds an MFA in Writing from the Bennington Writing Seminars of Bennington College, Vermont. She lives in Connecticut with her husband.
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