Love as Invasive Species: Poems - Softcover

Kombiyil, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 196032960X ISBN 13: 9781960329608

Publisher: Cornerstone Press, 2024

Synopsis

Shame has kept so many women's stories silenced, with a cultural lineage of lack that asks women to give up their own desire while simultaneously performing cultural expectations of desire for others. Part excavation, part interrogation, and part subsequent untethering from this inheritance, the poems in Ellen Kombiyil's magisterial Love as Invasive Species recognize that gender, class, capitalism, and legislation compound these issues that have stalked women for generations.

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About the Author

Ellen Kombiyil is the author of Histories of the Future Perfect (2015), and a micro chapbook, Avalanche Tunnel (2016). Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in New Ohio Review, Nimrod, Pleiades, and Ploughshares.She is a 2022 recipient of a BRIO Award (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) from the Bronx Council on the Arts, a two-time winner of the Mary M. Fay Poetry Award from Hunter College, a recipient of an Academy of American Poets college prize, and was awarded the Nancy Dean Medieval Prize for an essay on the acoustic quality of Chaucer's poetics. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Hunter's MFA program, she currently teaches writing at Hunter College.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cornerstone Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 196032960X
• ISBN 13: 9781960329608
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100