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To the Wren: Collected & New Poems

To the Wren: Collected & New Poems - Paperback

by Jane Mead
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jane MeadPublish date:8/20/2019Pages:650
Language:EnglishPublisher:Alice James BooksISBN-13:9781948579018ISBN-10:1948579014UPC:9781948579018Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Death, Grief, Loss, FamilySize:9.30 x 7.00 x 1.50 inchesWeight:2.6015Product ID:SCBWD8WFFD

This massive collection houses Mead's life's work: seven books spanning twenty-seven years. Follow chronologically through decades and become captivated by heartfelt muses on loss, madness, danger, grief, isolation, and self-identity. Her poems explore spaces we often try to ignore and finds a comfortable middleground. Mead candidly and openly weaves together pain and joy until it meshes into glimpses of humanity.

"Mead ... wrote clean, spare, often elegiac lines"

-The New York Times

"I remember her calm voice, her kindness, the incisive clarity of her comments. And now, on the desk beside me, lies To the Wren: Collected and New Poems: 1991-2019 (2019), and although more work may well emerge from other files or rescued papers, no new Jane Mead poems will ever be written. Our imperfect compensation is the current volume, a beautifully designed compendium of finely crafted poems whose world is mortal, suffering, yet vividly alive."

-Ned Balbo for Literary Matters

Language:EnglishPublisher:Alice James BooksISBN-13:9781948579018ISBN-10:1948579014UPC:9781948579018Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Death, Grief, Loss, FamilySize:9.30 x 7.00 x 1.50 inchesWeight:2.6015Product ID:SCBWD8WFFD
Jane Mead is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently World of Made and Unmade (Alice James, 2016) which was nominated for a National Book Award, as well as a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and the Griffin Prize in Poetry. Her poems appear regularly in journals and anthologies, and she's the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, and a Lannan Foundation Completion Grant. For many years Poet-in-Residence at Wake Forest University, she manages her family's ranch in northern California. She has taught as a visiting writer at Washington University, Colby College and most recently, The University of Iowa.
Publisher: Alice James Books

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