Alison Pelegrin's The Zydeco Tablets is a lively, memorable series of character portraits rooted in her native Louisiana. Writing frequently in blank verse and other fixed forms, Pelegrin handles form so smoothly that it is almost invisible--though the music of these poems always lingers in the ear, both during their reading and long afterwards.
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Her lines are tough with meaning and so backroads-sexy I can't keep my eyes off of them. -- Tim Gautreaux
The first book by a poet who will soon be recognized for her brilliance and skill and wisdom. -- Jim Whitehead
The first book by a poet who will soon be recognized for her brilliance and skill and wisdom. -- Jim Whitehead
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Alison Pelegrin earned her MFA degree at the University of Arkansas where for two years she was the director of the Arkansas Writers in the Schools Program. Her prize-winning poems have appeared in DoubleTake, Shenandoah, and Prairie Schooner, and she is the author of two chapbooks, Dancing with the One-Armed Man and Voodoo Lips. She lives in Mandeville, Louisiana with her husband Bryan Davidson and Benjamin, their son.
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Alison Pelegrin is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Big Muddy River of Stars and Hurricane Party, both with the University of Akron Press. Pelegrin is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and her poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Writer's Almanac, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. Presently, she serves as a member the English faculty at Southeastern Louisiana University.
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It is hard to believe that this book is the poet's first. Each line is strong and consistent, to spectacular result. I don't know when a volume by a single poet was this enjoyable. Ms. Pelegrin should be one of our greats.
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