Matching her fine (and often funny) imagination to a sharp, plainspoken intelligence, the poems in How I Got Lost So Close to Home move through familiar landscapes: the busy intersections of streets and parks, the changing topographies of self and family, and the hard won territory of beauty in an imperfect world. With their remarkable clarity, Dryansky's poems make us feel as though we too are present in her landscapes, and not just looking at them. The gift of these poems is their exacting detail, their compassion without sentimentality, and their ability to draw us into what the poet ultimately calls "home," a fluid awareness of the self that must be returned to again and again.
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"Amy Dryansky's poems are attentive to the nuances of speech, the darker undersides of catchphrase and colloquialism, but their tough talk and casual surfaces serve, finally, to underline the vulnerability of the speaker in these forthright poems, which dismantle certainties, which are alive with the courage of self-confrontation." -- Mark Doty
"How I Got Lost So Close to Home is a joyous collection of poems written by a woman whose best gifts include accuracy and risk. I love the free-fall of this book, its vivid, spirited language, its truths. If poetry is a high wire act, Dryansky awes her audience. And it is in her willingness to try new feats (without a net) that she startles us with her sweep and balance, her poise in the face of the uncertain, and her nerve." -- Deborah Digges
"How I Got Lost So Close to Home is a joyous collection of poems written by a woman whose best gifts include accuracy and risk. I love the free-fall of this book, its vivid, spirited language, its truths. If poetry is a high wire act, Dryansky awes her audience. And it is in her willingness to try new feats (without a net) that she startles us with her sweep and balance, her poise in the face of the uncertain, and her nerve." -- Deborah Digges
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Amy Dryansky's poetry appears in magazines such as The Harvard Review, DoubleTake, The New England Review, Massachusetts Review, Green Mountains Review and Mudfish. She is the recipient of many honors, including a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and residencies at MacDowell Colony, Villa Montalvo and Vermont Studio Center. She has also received an artist's grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, as well as a nomination for a Pushcart Prize. She earned a M.F.A. in Poetry from Vermont College, and a B.F.A from Syracuse University, where she studied Painting, Art History and Aesthetics. She lives in western Massachusetts, where she leads writing workshops for women and girls.
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The title of Amy Dryansky's book, although it suggests a speaker, or speakers, who have somehow lost their way in one fashion or another, is deceptive. Each poem in this collection is more about finding oneself, finding an answer, a connection, discovering a secret, something rare and at the same time beautifully common. From the first poem, "Today Everything Hurts," to the last, "How It Flew from Her," Dryansky exposes the soul and shows us all how fragile it can be -- and how that fragility is one of the most precious things we possess.
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A Great New Voice for Our Time,
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Exploring the personal and the public, reaching out while at the same time looking within, Dryansky's poetry can't help but touch your soul.
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