Pinecrest rest haven (Word Works capital collection) - Softcover

Cavalieri, Grace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0915380390 ISBN 13: 9780915380398

Publisher: Word Works, 1998

Synopsis

Pinecrest Rest Haven is a sequence of prose poems depicting the lives of the elderly living in a nursing home.

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About the Author

Grace Cavalieri is the author of eleven books of poetry and numerous produced plays. Her most recent books is Sit Down, Says Love (Argonne Hotel Press). She's written texts and lyrics performed for opera, stage, and film. Her play, "Pinecrest Rest Haven," was produced in NYC in 2001.

Grace teaches poetry workshops throughout the country and at the Tuscany Arts Retreat in Italy, sponsored by The Word Works. She is on the poetry faculty of St. Mary's College of Southern Maryland. Grace produced and hosted "The Poet and the Poem," weekly, on public radio (1977-1997) presenting 2,000 poets to the nation. She now produces this series once a year from the Library of Congress via NPR satellite.

Grace has received the Pen-Fiction Award, the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Silver Medal, and awards from the National Commission on Working Women, the WV Commission on Women, and The American Association of University Women. She received the inaugural Columbia Merit Award for "significant contribution to poetry."

Grace lives in West Virginia with her husband, sculptor Kenneth Flynn. They have four grown daughters.

Edition details

• Publisher: Word Works
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0915380390
• ISBN 13: 9780915380398
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 60