A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering: Poems
by Dawn Lundy Martin
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Dawn Lundy Martin's work is neither language poetry, which rejects the speaking subject, nor strictly lyric, which embraces the speaking "I." Martin's poems bend the form into something new, seeing a way to approach the horrific and its effect on the psyche more fully than might be possible in the worn groove of the traditional lyric. Her formal inventiveness is balanced by a firm grounding in bodily experience and in the amazing capacity of language to expand itself in Martin's hands. She show more explodes any pretense at a world where words mean exactly what we want them to mean and never more nor less -- Back cover. show lessTags
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Dawn Lundy Martin is an American Poet, writer, Activist. She earned her BA at the University of Connecticut, her Masters in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and her PhD on Literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is an instructor for the Language and Thinking Program at Bard College. She is co-editor with show more Vivien Labaton of The Fire This Time. She is the author of Discipline, and A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering. She has received the Academy of American Arts and Science's May Sarton Prize for Poetry. Her poetry collection, Life in a Box is a Pretty Life, won the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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