Edna
Published on 18. March 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
44 pages
978-1-64662-796-7 (ISBN)
Description
Melissa Boston's Edna is an inventive exploration of the pastoral mode that pulls from different sources of art and literature to construct a narrative about connection and wanting, love and failure, as well as acceptance. With three distinct speakers, the collection begins with an invoking of the title's only named speaker, and the reader is taken on an odyssey of a failed relationship that spans from the Hawaiian Islands to the Midwest. But with a lyrical tenderness, beauty is found in the ruins of these intimate moments, and the conversations that art and literature have with our lives is continued in a new paradigm of our interpreting and understanding of moments and places we inhabit.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
70 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64662-796-7 (9781646627967)
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Person
Melissa Boston is originally from the Midwest and currently lives in Northwest Arkansas. She has published in Midwestern, Southwestern, and Southern journals, and will be appearing in an anthology of Ozark Poets and Poetry from the University of Arkansas Press. She has ties to the University of Central Missouri's English Department as well as the University of Arkansas. She has participated often in the Port Townsend Writers Conference, and her poem Rilke, your garden was a Pushcart nominee in 2015.