Solitary Bee - Hardcover

Woodard, Chelsea

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1939574188 ISBN 13: 9781939574183

Publisher: Measure Press Inc., 2016

Synopsis

In Solitary Bee, poet Chelsea Woodard uses deft language and imagery to create vivid moments. Though many of the poems are reflective and play on past incidents in her life, the writing is clear: this is not sepia-toned nostalgia. Poems like "Things We Inherit" rest on tension in wordplay -- in the second line, Woodard plants a gun, and the reader spends the next several lines jumping every time she says "shot" (which refers to liquor, a rubber band, and a photograph, but is laced with double entendre). The collection understands things in three ways: first, as a child does, second, as an adult, and third, as someone trying to marry the two experiences and find the truth between them. Solitary Bee thrums with the knowledge that so many of these moments are peaceful, but there is a stinger not far below the surface.

About this title

About the Author

Chelsea Woodard's first collection, Vellum, was published by Able Muse Press in 2014. Her poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Southwest Review, Blackbird, American Life in Poetry, and elsewhere. She lives and teaches in New Hampshire.

Edition details

• Publisher: Measure Press Inc.
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1939574188
• ISBN 13: 9781939574183
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 90