Hands On - Softcover

McGuire, Dawn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887395023 ISBN 13: 9780887395024

Publisher: Creative Arts Book Co, 2002

Synopsis

Signed by the author.

About this title

About the Author:

Dawn McGuire was born in Grayson, Kentucky, in the foothills of the Appalachians. She graduated from St. Timothy's School and Princeton University, where she won the Academy of American Poets Prize and the Morris Croll Poetry Prize. Her first book, Sleeping in Africa, was published in 1982. Heeding Auden's advice to young poets, "Do something else," she went on to obtain a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary and an M.D. from Columbia University. A neurologist and a national authority on the neurological complications of AIDS, her research focuses on dementia. She is currently the president of a company developing a treatment to combat Alzheimer's disease. Returning to writing after a long hiatus, she has recently won prizes from Villa Montalvo Biennial Poetry Competition, The Clackamas Review, and The Spoon River Poetry Review. She lives in Berkeley with her partner and their two children.

Review:

Dawn McGuire's poems ... lead us toward subtle and ordinary wisdom. -- Forrest Hamer

McGuire presses us to look extremely and uncomfortably close, and then shows us where the heart in the matter is. -- Judy Grahn

About this edition

• Publisher: Creative Arts Book Co
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0887395023
• ISBN 13: 9780887395024
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 83