when they say you can’t go home again, what they mean is you were never there - Softcover

McConnell, Marty

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9781930508408: when they say you can’t go home again, what they mean is you were never there
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ISBN 10: 1930508409 ISBN 13: 9781930508408
Publisher: Southern Indiana Review Press, 2018

Synopsis

Winner of the 2017 Michael Waters Poetry Prize

What does it mean to be bodied in such a way that one is simultaneously weapon and target? To exist within a species tipping toward extinction? How do we navigate the landscape of our own damage, received and inflicted, in such a way as to move through individual survival and into a common joy? The gift and the trap of the human body and its attachments to this world converge and dissolve in these poems of ecstatic music, animated rage, and wild, generative hope.

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About the Author

Marty McConnell is the author of wine for a shotgun (EM Press, 2013) and Gathering Voices: Creating a Community-Based Poetry Workshop (YesYes Books, 2018). She is the co- creator of underbelly, an online magazine focused on the art and magic of poetry revision. An MFA graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Best American Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, and Indiana Review. She lives in Chicago with her wife, visual artist Lindsey Dorr-Niro.

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Publisher
Southern Indiana Review Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1930508409
ISBN 13 
9781930508408
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
88
Rating
  • 4.58 out of 5 stars
    112 ratings by Goodreads