Human Directional - Softcover

Diane Raptosh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0990322165 ISBN 13: 9780990322160

Publisher: Etruscan Press, 2016

Synopsis

Following her big hit, American Amnesiac, Raptosh’s Human Directional zigzags across consciousness, searing through old patterns of thought and offering new directions for the mind, heart, and world. Raptosh points the way to what Montaigne called “unlearning how to be a slave”. With the deadly precision of the fey, Human Directional reveals the heartbreak and absurdity of our world by exploring – and often exploding – its most sacred memes.

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About the Author

Diane Raptosh’s fourth book of poetry, American Amnesiac, (Etruscan Press) was longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award and was a finalist for the Housatonic Book Award. The recipient of three fellowships in literature from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, she served as the Boise Poet Laureate (2013) as well as the Idaho Writer-in-Residence (2013-2016), the highest literary honor in the state. In 2018 she received the Idaho Governor’s Arts Award in Excellence. A highly active ambassador for poetry, she has given poetry workshops everywhere from riverbanks to maximum security prisons. She teaches creative writing and runs the program in Criminal Justice/Prison Studies at The College of Idaho. Her most recent collection of poems, Human Directional, was released by Etruscan Press in 2016.

Edition details

• Publisher: Etruscan Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0990322165
• ISBN 13: 9780990322160
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88