Kin Types - Softcover

Castle, Luanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1635342546 ISBN 13: 9781635342543

Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2017

Synopsis

Eric Hoffer Award Finalist Kin Types is a collection of lyric poetry, prose poetry, and flash prose that imaginatively retells the lives of private individuals from previous generations. Using family history research, the writer has reconstructed the stories of women and men from Michigan to Illinois to the Netherlands. Read together, the pieces create a history of women dealing with infant mortality, vanity, housewife skills, divorce, secret abortion, the artist versus mother dilemma, mysterious death, wife beating, and a brave heroine saving a family's home. 

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About the Author

Luanne Castle's Kin Types, a chapbook of poetry and flash,was finalist for the 2018 Eric Hoffer Award.Her first collection of poetry, Doll God, won the 2015 NewMexico-Arizona Book Award. Luanne has been a Fellow at the Center for Ideas andSociety at the University of California, Riverside.  She studied at University of California,Riverside (PhD); Western Michigan University (MFA); and StanfordUniversity.  Her Pushcart and Best of theNet-nominated poetry and prose have appeared in Copper Nickel, American Journalof Poetry, Pleiades, River Teeth, TAB, Verse Daily, Glass: A Journal of Poetry,Broad Street, and other journals.

Edition details

• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1635342546
• ISBN 13: 9781635342543
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 44