Beautiful Motion: Poems by Dana Roeser (Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize)

Dana Roeser

ISBN 10: 1555536220 / ISBN 13: 9781555536220

Published by Northeastern University Press, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beautiful Motion: Poems by Dana Roeser (Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize)
• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555536220
• ISBN 13: 9781555536220
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Winner of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize (2004)

The fast-paced, linear poems in this volume draw "from speech, thoroughly and endearingly contaminated in the postmodern soup of advertising, self-help, science, pop media, and higher ed."

About the Author

Dana Roeser grew up in the Philadelphia area and was educated at Tulane University (B.A.), the University of Virginia (M.A., M.F.A.), and the University of Utah. Her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts Review, Indiana Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Northwest Review, Pool, Shade, and others, as well as on Poetry Daily. She has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Ragdale Foundation. She teaches at Butler University in Indianapolis and lives with her husband and two daughters in West Lafayette, Indiana. Ellen Bryant Voigt teaches in the low-residency MFA Program for writers at Warren Wilson College. She is the author of six books of poems: Claiming Kin, The Forces of Plenty, The Lotus Flowers, Two Trees, Kyrie, and Shadow of Heaven, as well as a collection of essays on poetic craft, The Flexible Lyric.