The Body's Response To Famine [Paperback]

Dana Curtis (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1886350906 | ISBN-13: 978-1886350908 | Publication Date: January 1, 2000 | Edition: 1st

Poetry. Winner of the 1999 Transcontinental Poetry Award for an outstanding first book-length collection of poetry or prose, this debut by Kansas-born poet Dana Curtis describes adventures of the body in tones both tender and macabre. (She's a swimmer and her body thrashes,/ delicate and white. Beneath the bridge,/ red with sky, how bitter she must/ taste.) Gone. (Undone) Rikki Ducornet has written, A poet of an urgent seeing, Dana Curtis articulates extremity, and this with exceptional ferocity, delicacy and power. If her book were a garden, it would be a place of black ice and live water.

Product Details

• Paperback: 74 pages
• Publisher: Pavement Saw Press; 1st edition (January 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886350906
• ISBN-13: 978-1886350908
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• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,048,043 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dana Curtis' second full-length collection of poetry, Camera Stellata, is forthcoming from CW Books. Her first full-length collection, The Body's Response to Famine, won the Pavement Saw Press Transcontinental Poetry Prize. She has also published six chapbooks: Antiviolet ( Pudding House Press), Pyromythology (Finishing Line Press), Twilight Dogs (Pudding House Press), Incubus/Succubus (West Town Press), Dissolve (Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press), and Swingset Enthralled (Talent House Press). Her work has appeared in such publications as Quarterly West, Indiana Review, Colorado Review, and Prairie Schooner. She has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the McKnight Foundation. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Elixir Press.