Poetry. Sarah Messer's BANDIT LETTERS are an archive of rebellion: against coherence and for multiplicity. Her cast of elusive outlaws, who encounter the borders and borderlands of experience and identity, appear, reappear, and disappear in landscapes that conjure the Wild West, Colonial New England, and a pop-culture-strewn American present tense. Out of the rubble of this new old world, Messer builds a time-traveling and willfully anachronistic poetry that challenges our commonplace notions of history, gender, and power. At the heart of these poems lies an exploration of what is lost when bodies become language and, just as importantly, what is gained when words touch flesh.
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"So many originalities—of phrasing and figure...—make Sarah Messer’s poems a matter of some deliberation for new readers." -- Richard Howard
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Sarah Messer has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the American Antiquarian Society, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Michigan. A memoir of place, Red House, is forthcoming from Viking. She teaches poetry and creative non-fiction at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. Messer has had poems published in the Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Boulevard, and other journals. She lives in North Carolina.
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