The Explosion of Binary Stars - Softcover

Blank, Debby Jo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848611978 ISBN 13: 9781848611979

Publisher: Shearsman Books, 2012

Synopsis

The Explosion of Binary Stars explores themes of loss in the author's own life and in the lives of her patients. The themes are universal: divorce, breast cancer, war, addiction, PTSD, aging, depression and, most importantly in this book, the death of a sibling. The book is not maudlin, rather the intimate poems invite the reader to enjoy an honesty that ultimately celebrates life, while funny poems about love and travel are scattered throughout as a balm.

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About the Author

Debby Jo Blank is a primary care physician in Tucson, Arizona. Her medical training was in Boston at Tufts, Harvard and a three-year Sloan Fellowship at MIT. She won the Faulkner Prize for Poetry in 2008 and has been short-listed for the Hippocrates Prize, the Black Lawrence Award and was a finalist for the St. Lawrence Award. Her poems have appeared in JAMA, The Journal of Medical Humanities, New Works Review and in the 2011 Anthology printed by Arsenic Lobster. The author has studied in the MFA program at Lesley University and studied writing at Sarah Lawrence, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Poetry Week of San Miguel de Allende, Iowa Writer's Workshop, ASU and as an Undergraduate at Stanford. She hikes in the Sonoran Desert in the American Southwest, a greenbelt of cacti, Palo Verdes, Mesquite, Cottonwoods and other indigenous plants hardy enough to withstand the summer heat and the winter freeze. She has volunteered in hospice and at the Poetry Center of the University of Arizona.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848611978
• ISBN 13: 9781848611979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 82