Little Stranger
Published on 27. June 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-55659-432-8 (ISBN)
Description
- Singer-songwriter Jeffrey Foucault's 2010 album "Cold Satellite" was made in collaboration with Olstein-the lyrics are her fragments and poems.
- Lisa Olstein, reading her poem "Radio Crackling, Radio Gone," was featured as PBS NewsHour: http://video.pbs.org/video/2169489131/
- In Spring 2012 Olstein co-starred with Robert Pinsky, Katie Petersen, and Lloyd Schwartz in a one-act play performed at Harvard University about Elizabeth Bishop's correspondences with The New Yorker magazine.
- Olstein received her MFA from UMass and worked with James Tate and Dara Weir.
- Olstein lived for almost three years in Greece.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
174 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55659-432-8 (9781556594328)
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Lisa Olstein's debut collection of poetry Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (Copper Canyon, 2006) won the Hayden Carruth Award, and her second volume, Lost Alphabet (Copper Canyon, 2009), was named a "Best Poetry Book of the Year” by Library Journal. After receiving her BA from Barnard College, Olstein lived in Greece and studied at Harvard Divinity School before deciding to pursue an MFA at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She currently serves as Associate Director of MFA program for Poets and Writers at University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she cofounded the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts & Action and is a contributing editor at jubilat. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.