Nest of Thistles (Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize) - Hardcover

Boutelle, Annie

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9781555536473: Nest of Thistles (Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize)

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Born and raised in Scotland, Annie Boutelle was educated at the University of St. Andrews and New York University. Author of Thistle and Rose: A Study of Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry, she teaches in the English Department at Smith College, where she founded the Poetry Center. She has published in various journals, including the Georgia Review, Green Mountains Review, the Hudson Review, Nimrod, Poet Lore, and Poetry. Her first book of poems, based on the life of Celia Thaxter, is Becoming Bone. She lives with her husband in western Massachusetts.

Eric Pankey is Professor of English at George Mason University. His books of poetry are For the New Year (winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets), Heartwood, Apocrypha, The Late Romances, Cenotaph (winner of the Library of Virginia Poetry Award), and Oracle Figures.

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"Boutelle's eye for the revelatory detail, her ear for a craggy consonance and airy assonance, and her mind with its well-honed intelligence, reveal and explore the self, in particular a self wrought from history, myth, and tradition. Line by line, her "articulate relishing and mastery of phenomena in general" make a corporeal and tangible world out of the strata of yesterdays . . ." (From the introduction by Eric Pankey)

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