Daughter of the Hangnail (First Book) - Softcover

Reynolds, Rebecca

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9780932826572: Daughter of the Hangnail (First Book)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0932826571 ISBN 13: 9780932826572

Publisher: Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 1997

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Review:

"This fun, bracingly smart first collection balances speculative epistimologies against surprising, seen things, panning from incident ('man discovered with over 7OO birds') to remote tangent: 'his poor head, startled, / the way a floorpan is startled with wings.' Reynolds' comparisons propose and test definitions of self, pain, meaning; 'The heart-- / a canned tulip-- / cannot bear itself. And the mind's light masonry / houses a crap shoot, waterlit.' . . . Reynolds stands out for her sharp juxtapositions, for her generous empathies, and for her sometimes-exceptional ear."--Stephen Burt "Boston Review"

About the Author:

REBECCA REYNOLDS was born and grew up in Washington, D.C. She received a B.A. from Vasser College, an M.A. in English from Rutgers University, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan. She has been the recipient of a Hopwood Award, a New Jersey State Council on the Arts grant, and the 1998 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America for Daughter of the Hangnail (New Issues, 1997). She teaches creative writing at Douglass College, the women's college of Rutgers University, and is an Assistant Dean for Academic Services.

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