Bones Washed with Wine [Paperback]

Jeff Mann (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 16, 2003

A special collection of lyric intensity, including the 1999 Gival Press Poetry Award winning collection.

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"...these poems rests not only in personal toll but also in greater losses.... A poignant collection." -- Katherine Soniat, author of "A Shared Life"

Jeff Mann "...is a poet to treasure both for the wealth of his language and the generosity of his spirit." -- Edward Falco, author of "Acid"

About the Author

Jeff Mann has published three award-winning poetry collections as well as a collection of essays entitled "Edge" and a vampire novella. His work has appeared in a variety of journals from Poet Lore to Appalachian Heritage to The James White Review.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Gival Press, LLC (January 16, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1928589146
• ISBN-13: 978-1928589143
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,604,781 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Jeff Mann grew up in Covington, Virginia, and Hinton, West Virginia, receiving degrees in English and forestry from West Virginia University. His poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in many publications, including The Spoon River Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Laurel Review, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, Crab Orchard Review, Appalachian Heritage, Best Gay Poetry, Best Gay Erotica, and Best Gay Stories. He has published three award-winning poetry chapbooks, Bliss, Mountain Fireflies, and Flint Shards from Sussex; three full-length books of poetry, Bones Washed with Wine, On the Tongue, and Ash: Poems from Norse Mythology; two collections of personal essays, Edge: Travels of an Appalachian Leather Bear and Binding the God: Ursine Essays from the Mountain South; a novel, Fog: A Novel of Desire and Reprisal; two novellas, Devoured, included in Masters of Midnight: Erotic Tales of the Vampire, and Camp Allegheny, included in History's Passion: Stories of Sex Before Stonewall; a book of poetry and memoir, Loving Mountains, Loving Men; and a volume of short fiction, A History of Barbed Wire, which won a Lambda Literary Award. He teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Strong Poet: Honest, Straighforward, November 30, 2008

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This review is from: Bones Washed with Wine (Paperback)

This book is a collection of poems in which the poet runs alternately toward and away from love. His peregrinations take him to Brighton, the British Museum, Buchenwald, Walden Pond, the grave of Alexander the Great's father in Thessaloniki, and Civil War battle sights. In addition to the reader, his traveling companions include Heathcliff, Emily Dickinson, Edward II, and the Gray Lady. Like the rest of us, he is driven by love. Who wouldn't want to get the following lines from an absent lover?: "Whenever you enter my sight, my arms, / summer saturates us, evolution accelerates, / nakedness riling with honey and sunlight. / No sense of mine, made modest by loneliness, / ever dreamed such surpassing. Only you ever / made my love welcome, could face half my fire." A strong poet understand that nothing is so ordinary it cannot add a piece to the puzzle of who he is. He is then bound, as a poet, to report it honestly, straightforwardly to all within earshot. Mann is a strong poet.