In the Field Between Us – Poems - Softcover

Brown, Molly Mccully; Nevison, Susannah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0892555149 ISBN 13: 9780892555147

Publisher: Persea, 2020

Synopsis

In the Field Between Us is a friendship in poems, an epistolary project by Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison that ponders disability and the possibility of belonging in the aftermath of lifelong medical intervention. In the beginning, the poem-letters express, in gorgeous harmony, the psychic and physiological complexities of surviving remedy. As the book unfolds, the writers encounter a natural world around them that increasingly seems to mirror the traumas they have endured. Out of its tracing of innumerable scars, this book emits a perseverance, a spirit of communion, and a hopeful resolve that rises out of the poets' attention to detail and their profound connection to one another.

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About the Authors

Molly McCully Brown is the author of the essay collection Places I’ve Taken my Body―published in the United States in 2020 by Persea Books and in the United Kingdom in 2021 by Faber & Faber― and the poetry collection The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics and Feebleminded (Persea Books, 2017), which won the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and was named a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2017. With Susannah Nevison, she is coauthor of the poetry collection In The Field Between Us (Persea Books, 2020), an NEA Big Read selection. Brown has been the recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, a United States Artists Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship and the Jeff Baskin Writers Fellowship from the Oxford American magazine. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Paris Review,  The Guardian, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New York Times, The Yale Review and elsewhere. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Sewanee: the University of the South, and Editor-in-Chief of Image Journal.

Susannah Nevison received the American Literary Review poetry prize and an Academy of American Poets/Larry Levis prize for her work. Her poems and criticism have appeared in or are forthcoming from Ninth Letter, American Literary Review, Southern Indiana Review, diode, Cider Press Review, and elsewhere. She is a doctoral candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah, where she also teaches.

Edition details

• Publisher: Persea
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0892555149
• ISBN 13: 9780892555147
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 60