Dime Store Erotics (Gerald Cable Book Award Series) [Paperback]

Ann Townsend (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 76 pages
• Publisher: Silverfish Review Press (March 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 187885111X
• ISBN-13: 978-1878851116
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,583,280 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Ann Townsend is the author of two collections of poetry: The Coronary Garden (Sarabande Books, 2005), and Dime Store Erotics (Silverfish Review Press, 1998), winner of the Gerald Cable Prize. She also is the editor of a collection of essays, Radiant Lyre: on Lyric Poetry, (with David Baker), forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2007. Her poetry and essays appear in such magazines as Poetry, The Paris Review, The Nation, The Southern Review, and many others. She has read her poems and lectured on poetry and poetics at colleges, universities, writer's workshops, and bookstores around the country.

A member of the creative writing program at Denison University since 1992, she teaches courses in creative writing, twentieth century poetry and poetics, and the history of the lyric poem. She lives with her family on a small farm in Granville, Ohio. There they garden -- vegetables, flowers, herbs, and orchard trees -- and tend several acres of old-growth woods.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars hopes for a second book, September 28, 1999

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This review is from: Dime Store Erotics (Gerald Cable Book Award Series) (Paperback)

i own a copy of this book, and i had the pleasure of spending a week at a workshop taught by dr. townsend. this book never leaves my bag. my highest praise for a spectacular collection of poems and its lovely author.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding first-book of poetry., April 5, 1999

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This review is from: Dime Store Erotics (Gerald Cable Book Award Series) (Paperback)

Dime Store Erotics is a splendid book of poetry, by a real up-and-comer! It is lyrically rich but also riveting--familial, sexual, natural. The poems range from the experiences of motherhood to buying dime novels in a busstop store, from gardening to drunken revelries. In addition to the strong narratives, the poems are themselves extremely well-made, tight, formally coherent but flexible. Ann Townsend surely knows how to write!