Acts of Contortion (The Brittingham Prize in Poetry): Volume 2002 - Softcover

Meek, Anna George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299182649 ISBN 13: 9780299182649

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002

Synopsis

Winner of the 2002 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, this collection explores the gestures of hurtfulness and compassion. Whether set in a shelter for battered women, in the midst of a political demonstration, or at the centre of an orchestra, the poems pursue the place of language in an injurous world.

About this title

About the Author:

Anna George Meek is a freelance violinist, violin teacher, and instructor at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis; she has also spent several years working as crisis intervention staff at a domestic violence shelter. Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Hayden s Ferry Review, The Massachusetts Review, Missouri Review, Poetry, and other journals. She received an M.A. from the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University and an M.A. in English from Indiana University, where she was a 1995 recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize. This is her first book."

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0299182649
• ISBN 13: 9780299182649
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84
• Editor: De Almeida Paulo Roberto