
Sledding the Valley of the Shadow
Laura Foley(Author)
Fernwood Press
Published on 10. December 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
104 pages
978-1-59498-149-4 (ISBN)
Description
These supple, melodious poems address mortality with humor and wit as the speaker loses family and friends, survives her own heart event and surgery, and takes care of her wife as she undergoes cancer treatment during the Coronavirus pandemic.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
118 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59498-149-4 (9781594981494)
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Laura Foley is the author of seven full-length poetry collections and three chapbooks. Why I Never Finished My Dissertation received a starred Kirkus Review, an Eric Hoffer Award, and was longlisted for the Julie Suk Award from Jacar Press. She has won a Narrative Magazine Poetry Prize, The Common Good Books Poetry Prize, the Bisexual Book Award, Atlanta Review's Grand Prize and others. Her work has been included in many journals and anthologies, including Alaska Quarterly, Valparaiso Poetry Review, DMQ Review, JAMA, Poetry Society London, Atlanta Review, Poetry of Presence, The Wonder of Small Things, and How to Love the World. Her poems have been featured frequently on The Writer's Almanac. She lives with her wife, Clara Giménez, and their two romping canines on the steep banks of the Connecticut River in New Hampshire.