About the Author:
"Two Faint Lines in the Violet," Lissa Kiernan's first poetry collection, was a Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award finalist, as well as a finalist for the Julie Suk Award for Best Poetry Book by an Independent Press. Kiernan holds an MFA in Poetry from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine, and an MA in Media Studies from The New School. She founded and directs the Poetry Barn, a literary center based in NewYork's Catskill Park, sponsoring workshops, readings, craft talks, and book arts for allages.
Review:
Kiernan's sonic variation is keen and her palette complex in this, her debut book of poetry, the title of which comes from Marie Curie's visual accounting of beauty and power hidden from the naked eye. --Judith Vollmer, Women's Review of Books, January/February 2016
Kiernan's book is ahead of its time, a tragic and lucid banner leading us into the 21st century when poets will increasingly be called on to remind us that we are human animals whose fate is held in the earth.
--Annie Finch
Her poems are sensational, which is to say sophisticated, darkly funny, inventively shaped, and full of tremendous tensions between the said and unsaid.
--Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Merges the personal and the political in zany and utterly moving ways.
--Theodore Deppe
Lissa Kiernan's debut collection radiates, burns, and fluoresces like uranium glass, like a "bed of plutonium nightlights." --Carlo Matos, Cleaver Magazine
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