Round Lake

Grace Bonner

ISBN 10: 1935536745 / ISBN 13: 9781935536741

Published by Four Way Books, 2016

About this Item

Round Lake begins with an awakening in solitude. It moves through a search for romantic love, and attempts to create a sense of home and family through art and travel. There are elegies: surviving a sibling's drug addiction, and the losses of a father (to cancer) and a mother (to suicide).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Round Lake
• Publisher: Four Way Books
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935536745
• ISBN 13: 9781935536741
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Round Lake begins with an awakening in solitude. It moves through a search for romantic love, and attempts to create a sense of home and family through art and travel. There are elegies: surviving a sibling’s drug addiction, and the losses of a father (to cancer) and a mother (to suicide).

About the Author

GRACE BONNER holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. Round Lake is her first book of poetry. She is a MacDowell fellow, and the former Director of the 92Y Poetry Center. She has taught English and Creative Writing at the Pierrepont School and abroad. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, The Paris Review, Parnassus, Poetry Daily, The Southampton Review and other publications. Her memoir, Ghost Tracks, is about inheritance, sibling rivalry, mental illness, and how the American prison-industrial complex stretched one fragile family to its breaking point. She is a mentor in PEN’s Prison Writing Program.