Separate Escapes (Richard Snyder Publication) [Paperback]

Corrinne Hales (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0912592494 | ISBN-13: 978-0912592497 | Publication Date: January 2002

Poetry. "This is a beautiful, bitter book. Her poems, compelling histories, local testimonies, handfuls of bees frozen, then alive, stinging like love, or the furious assaults of atomic radiation, hold our attention because, like a sharper's three shells with one pea, they reveal secrets within our grasp, which are yet never quite possessed. Poetry ought to shake us, convince us, test us. This poetry does. I love it" --Dave Smith, Editor of The Southern Review. Corrinne Clegg Hales is the author of one prior book of poetry, Underground, and two chapbooks, Out of this Place, and January Fire which is the winner of the Devil's Millhopper Chapbook Prize. She has also recieved two NEA Fellowship Grants and the River Styx International Poetry Prize and is currently the Co-Coordinator of the M.F.A. Program at California State University, Fresno.

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Corrinne Clegg Hales was born in Tooele, Utah, earned her BA and MA at the University of Utah, and completed a Ph.D. at SUNY-Binghamton. She is the author of one prior book of poetry, "Underground" (Ahsahta Press), and two chapbooks, "Out of This Place" (March Street Press) and "January Fire," winner of the Devil's Millhopper Chapbook Prize. Other awards include two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grants and the River Styx International Poetry Prize. She lives in Fresno, California, where she is Co-coordinator of the M.F.A. Program at California State University, Fresno.

Product Details

• Paperback: 63 pages
• Publisher: Ashland Poetry Press (January 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0912592494
• ISBN-13: 978-0912592497
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.9 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #989,559 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb poet of experience, September 30, 2008

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This is one of the best books of poetry you can find. Hales has mulled over her experience and presents it in ways that shed light on the broader human experience, without sacrificing one iota of the personal dimension. Her cunning use of language does not back away from her own responsibility to play a role in the poems she writes. Her ellegy for her brother, contained in this volume, is certainly one of the most powerful poems in English by a living poet.