Mercy Island: New and Collected Poems - Softcover

Powell, Ren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0986690929 ISBN 13: 9780986690921

Publisher: Phoenicia Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

These forty-one poems, written by Ren Powell between 1998 and 2010, depict a coming of age that begins in a claustrophobic American trailer park and expands into the kind of borderless existence shared by all emigrants and homesick travelers. Throughout this journey, the poet’s fears—which are the fears we all harbor—are balanced by her unflinching witness to what is real, just, true, and beautiful. Even in the face of pain and disintegration, the poet refuses to relinquish her humor or her humanity.

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About the Author

Ren (Katherine) Powell is a writer, poet, translator, and native Californian living on the west coast of Norway. She has published four full-length collections of poetry and eleven books of translations, and her poetry has been translated and published in six languages. Ren has a BA in Theater Arts and received her doctorate in Creative Writing from Lancaster University in England in January, 2011. She has taught theater and drama at a performing arts school for ten years and her dramatic works have been performed in the U.S., Canada and Norway. The founding editor of the online literary journals Protest Poems.org and Babel Fruit: Writing Under the Influence, Ren also represented Norway on the International PEN Women Writers' Committee, and helped establish the International Cities of Refuge Network in Europe.

Edition details

• Publisher: Phoenicia Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0986690929
• ISBN 13: 9780986690921
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 100