Polio Boulevard: A Memoir (Excelsior Editions) - Couverture souple

Chase, Karen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1438452829 ISBN 13 : 9781438452821

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2014

Synopsis

In 1954, Karen Chase was a ten-year-old girl playing Monopoly in the polio ward when the radio blared out the news that Dr. Jonas Salk had developed the polio vaccine. The discovery came too late for her, and Polio Boulevard is Chase's unique chronicle of her childhood while fighting polio. From her lively sickbed she experiences puppy love, applies to the Barbizon School of Modeling, and dreams of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a polio patient who became President of the United States. Chase, now an accomplished poet who survived her illness, tells a story that flows backward and forward in time from childhood to adulthood.  Her imagination soars in this narrative of illness and recovery, a stunning blend of provocative reflection, humor, and pluck.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Karen Chase lives in The Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts. Her poems, stories and essays have appeared in many magazines, including The Gettysburg Review, The New Yorker, The New Republic and Southwest Review. She is the author of two collections of poems, Kazimierz Square and BEAR, as well as Jamali-Kamali, a book-length homoerotic poem which takes place in Mughal India. Her book, Land of Stone, tells the story of her work with a silent young man in a psychiatric hospital where she was the Hospital Poet. Polio Boulevard, a memoir which came out in 2014 has lead to her next book, FDR On His Houseboat: The Larooco Log, 1924-1926, which will be released in the fall of 2016.

Her work has been widely anthologized, including poems in The Norton Introduction To Poetry, Thus Spake The Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader edited by Andrei Codrescu, and Poetry 180 edited by Billy Collins.

Among her honors, she was the Visiting Writer at the FDR Homestead, a Fellow at The MacDowell Colony, The Sanskriti Foundation, and at The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center. She has been the recipient of numerous grants, including several from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry and The Rockefeller Foundation. For over a decade, Chase was the Poet-in-Residence at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, teaching poetry writing to severely disturbed psychiatric patients. She then founded and ran the Camel River Writing Center and has twice served on the resident faculty of The Robert Frost Place. Currently, she is a trustee of The Amy Clampitt Fund, whose mission is to benefit poetry and the literary arts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438452829
• ISBN 13: 9781438452821
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible