Poetry. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and the winner of two Carolyn Kizer Poetry Awards, Paulann Petersen has been on the faculty for the Creative Arts Community at Menucha, and has given workshops for Oregon Writers Workshop, Oregon State Poetry Association, and Mountain Writers Series. Madeline DeFrees says, "After the erotic poems of The Wild Awake, and the Turkish poems of Blood Silk, Paulann Petersen gives us [in] A BRIDE OF NARROW ESCAPE...stunning poems, intimate and deeply tender." And Lawson Inada says, "She ventures into the recesses of memory, explores the complexity of nature, and human nature...here is poetry of revelation and wonder." Oregon Literary Arts has chosen Paulann Peterson to receive The Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award for her work for the Friends of William Stafford. Paulann is also a finalist for the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry, a part of the 2006 Oregon Book Awards
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A wonderful book, one of the very few I have read through, then returned to the beginning and started again. -- David Lee
The poems brim with the brilliance of discovery. Hers is a poetry of revelation and wonder. -- Lawson Inada
The poems brim with the brilliance of discovery. Hers is a poetry of revelation and wonder. -- Lawson Inada
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Paulann Petersen is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University whose poems have appeared in many publications including Poetry, The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, and Wilderness Magazine. She has four chapbooks--Under the Sign of a Neon Wolf, The Animal Bride, Fabrication, and The Hermaphrodite Flower. Her first full-length collection of poems, The Wild Awake, was published by Confluence Press in 2002. A second, Blood-Silk, poems about Turkey, was published by Quiet Lion Press of Portland in 2004. A BRIDE OF NARROW ESCAPE was published by Cloudbank Books as part of its Northwest Poetry Series in 2006. Her latest book is Kindle, published by Mountains and Rivers Press in 2008.
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While the latter portion of the book is somewhat traditional coming-of-age and nature poetry (albeit well-written), the book starts stronger than any other book of poetry I have ever come across. Detailing loss with poise, honor, and honesty, poems like "Scour" and "A Last Cool, Sweet Thing" are the epitome of good poetry - intellectually stimulating, emotionally engaging, and unapologetically memorable.
The most wonderful part is that it never seems sensational, never a poem to take advantage of experience, but to present it to the reader. It is the poetry one can respect. Even after the initially powerful poems, the tamer poems still roll along smoothly and do not drag. Poems such as "Provisions" deal with the experience of nature, but it's never just about nature. It's about experience, and wisdom. This book is as good as any on the Barnes and Noble poetry shelves. Probably better.
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