In Joanna's House (Cleveland State University Poetry Series: LVI) (CSU poetry series) - Softcover

Bonnie Jacobson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880834421 ISBN 13: 9781880834428

Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1998

Synopsis

Joanna spends a lot of time agonizing about death, her dining room chairs, the nature of reality, and being nice. In this brilliant sequence of forty-six 26-line poems, Bonnie Jacobson has created a character whom we laugh at, but can't help loving.

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About the Author

A native Ohioan, Bonnie Jacobson studied theatre at Kent State University and illustration and design at the Cleveland Institute of Art. After pursuing a career as a commerical artist, and raising two daughters, she returned to college at Case Western Reserve Univeristy,graduating magna cum laude with a major in English. In 1981 Bits Press published her chapbook On Being Served Apples, and in 1990 her full-length collection Stopping for Time appeared from GreenTower Press. Meanwhile she has served as an editor and illustrator for the Bits Press Light Year series and as president of the Poets' League of Greater Cleveland. She lives in Beachwood, Ohio.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1880834421
• ISBN 13: 9781880834428
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64