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Availability:In StockContributor:Laura ReadPublish date:10/28/2025Pages:96
Language:EnglishPublisher:BOA EditionsISBN-13:9781960145857ISBN-10:1960145851UPC:9781960145857Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, Women AuthorsBook Topic:Death, Grief, Loss, FamilySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SC0SP8SRR4

The Serious World

The Serious World is a collection of epistolary poems written to Sylvia Plath about depression, therapy, friendship, family, and the struggling life of an artist. With humor, sensitivity, and deep reflection, Laura Read explores many themes including mental health, suicide, loss, feminism, motherhood, and aging, offering a fresh view of the world as seen through the feminist poet's searching...

Language:EnglishPublisher:BOA EditionsISBN-13:9781960145857ISBN-10:1960145851UPC:9781960145857Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, Women AuthorsBook Topic:Death, Grief, Loss, FamilySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SC0SP8SRR4
Laura Read is the author of The Serious World (BOA, 2025), But She Is Also Jane (winner of the Juniper Prize), Dresses from the Old Country, and Instructions for my Mother's Funeral (winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize). She served as poet laureate for the city of Spokane. She lives in Spokane, WA.
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