Echolalia [Paperback]

Deborah Bernhardt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 22, 2006

Winner of the Intro Prize, selected by Marianne Boruch “How even to talk about what it is to read these haunted, ecstatic (wily so, calmly so) immensely likable, edgy poems that Deborah Bernhardt has given us? They're surprising, yes. You never know their next step, where they might leap, or return. The language and cadence—fractured, whizzing—of our most wired new century lives in them though Bernhardt's subjects are ancient: love and family, ache and hope, remorse and grief worked out in memory and right now, that dazzling look-at-this. And I did. I kept coming back to look at and through these poems, both solaced and unnerved by their energy and wit and darkness, their patience—even given their great restlessness—the meticulous care in which they were made, the ghosts of Bishop, Dickinson, Cummings, Hopkins here by name and spirit, how be they transformed, flooded, rekindled, all so oddly cherished. Welcome this poet, this very original eye and ear and heart.” —Marianne Boruch, judge

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About the Author

Deborah Bernhardt received a BA in English/Art History/Photography from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Arizona. She has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Fishtrap, Penn State Altoona, Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing/Jay C. and Ruth Halls, Wisconsin Arts Board, Writers@Work and Summer Literary Seminars. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, Cue, Fence, Indiana Review, Pog 2, Spork, and Quarterly West.

Product Details

• Paperback: 78 pages
• Publisher: Four Way Books (March 22, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884800726
• ISBN-13: 978-1884800726
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,552,787 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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