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The Skiers: Jill Bialosky Imprint:
Arc Publications
Format:
Hardback & Paperback
Price:
£12.99 (hb) & £9.99 (pb)
ISBN (hb):
978-1-904614-93-7
ISBN (pb):
978-1-904614-43-2
Size:
138 x 216 mm, 142 pp
Pub. date:
August 2009
Genre:
Poetry
• “(Bialosky) combines the best aspects of confessional and lyric poetry…” — The New Yorker • “…the poet of the secret garden, the place, at once, of grace and sadness.” — Gerald Stern About The Skiers by Jill Bialosky The Skiers: New and Selected Poems is a selection from Jill Bialosky’s three collections published in the US, plus a body of new work. Drawing on her experiences of childhood and adolescence, of childbirth and death, of motherhood, love and sexuality, she creates poems that are at once moving, unflinchingly honest and marked by a consummate technical skill. She has been described by Gerald Stern as “the poet of the secret garden, the place, at once, of grace and sadness” and her poetry has a dignity, a magic and a passion that makes it utterly distinctive About the author: Jill Bialosky was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She has published two collections of poems, Subterranean (2001) and The End of Desire (1997), two novels, The Life Room (2002) and House Under Snow (2007) and co-edited the anthology Wanting A Child (1998). She has received a number of awards, including the Elliot Coleman Award in Poetry. She is currently an editor at W. W. Norton & Co. and lives in New York City. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders, rights and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk
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