
Witness
Ruth Bardon(Author)
Meadowlark (Publisher)
Published on 15. October 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-1-956578-64-5 (ISBN)
Description
The poems in Ruth Bardon's Witness are deceptively simple; they're short and clear, and most focus on small episodes of daily life, starting with childhood and continuing into old age. The complexity comes from the ways in which the poems are infused with later knowledge, with understanding and compassion, and with a persistent awareness of the fragility and brevity of our lives.
2024 Finalist-Birdy Poetry Prize, by Meadowlark Press
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Series
Edition
2024th ed.
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
203 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-956578-64-5 (9781956578645)
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Person
Ruth Bardon grew up in Highland Park, New Jersey, and lived in a number of midwestern cities before firmly settling in Durham, North Carolina. She received an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1982 and a PhD in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995. Her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Boulevard, The Cincinnati Review, New Ohio Review, Salamander, and other journals. She is the author of two chapbooks: Demon Barber (Main Street Rag, 2020) and What You Wish For (Finishing Line Press, 2023). She is also the author of Selected Short Stories of William Dean Howells (Ohio University Press, 1997).