Glamoury
Published on 20. April 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-6671-5209-7 (ISBN)
Description
59 vividly haunting poems by Susan Sheppard. "When I first read the poems of a young woman from Appalachia, thirty years ago, I knew she was one of the best poets I'd ever met. I never forgot the brooding witchcraft, the mystery and magic in her work. There's no writer like Susan Sheppard. She writes like a woman who has nothing to lose and I place her at the top of poetry's canon. It is the world's fault that a Sheppard poetry book is not in our libraries. Every page of Glamoury is rich, resolving to bring truth to life with language smoldering, ready to burst into flame. I read this book and feel lucky to know a poet who keeps poetry alive. This is the book of the year. -Grace Cavalieri, Maryland Poet Laureate
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
153 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6671-5209-7 (9781667152097)
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Susan Sheppard (1955-2021) was a native West Virginian, with deep roots in Appalachia. Sheppard was the winner of a West Virginia Department of Culture & History's poetry fellowship, which is how she won her first computer. She was the first runner-up in the Poets & Writer's Maureen Egen Writer's Exchange for 2019 and traveled as a part of the "Women of Appalachia Spoken Word Series." She was "Black Dutch," meaning that she was descended from the less than 850 Shawnee Indians who remained east of the Mississippi River after the other Shawnee (during the "Trail of Tears" removal) were forced onto reservations out west in the 1830s. Susan, along with others in the Friend family, was a direct descendent of Shawnee Chief Big Thunder through his daughter, Bright Lightning, whose name was anglicized to "Anna Friend."