Incomer: poems - Couverture souple

Proudfoot, Bonnie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1945049650 ISBN 13 : 9781945049651

Editeur : Shadelandhouse Modern Press, LLC, 2026

Synopsis

Incomer is a story in poetry about falling in love-with life, with change, with the rural hills of the mid-Appalachians, with the challenge of living close to the land, and with possibility. "Take a kid who grew up in a city, put her / next to a pond with a pole, and soon enough, / she will catch a fish and not know what to do / with it." It swirls with birds, seasons, persistence, and the aching hunger to find belonging. Present dangers and sharp memories of past wounds weave in and out as the poet sets down roots and persists, foot to the ground, in a strange new place that becomes beloved. Meanwhile, the poet grieves the cost of disconnection as her mother's illness and death bring her back to what she left when she moved away from the familiar.

Bonnie Proudfoot's poems all have a strong pulse, alive with hope and the possibility of transcendence; she climbs through thickets of joys and hardships, growing stronger, understanding more about her chosen home along the way. She questions whether she's "grafted to something native," becoming part of the land and animals and people under assault by corporate greed, by environmental changes, by societal fractures. An understanding-of self, of place, of yearning and loss-intertwines with the landscapes and seasons of the Appalachian region.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bonnie Proudfoot moved from New York to West Virginia in 1979. She received a BA in art education and English education from Fairmont State, an MA in English from West Virginia University, and an MA in creative writing from Hollins University. She was an associate professor at Hocking College, Nelsonville, Ohio, for over twenty years. Proudfoot received a fellowship in the arts from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History. She has published fiction, poetry, reviews, and essays. Her novel, Goshen Road, (Ohio University Press/Swallow Press, 2020) was selected by the Women's National Book Association for Great Group Reads, long-listed for the 2021 PEN/Hemingway Award, and awarded the Writers Conference of Northern Appalachia (WCoNA) Book of the Year. Her writing has been nominated for the Best of the Net and for a Pushcart Prize. Her debut book of poems, Household Gods, was published by Sheila-Na-Gig Editions in 2022. She lives in Athens, Ohio, and delights in the writing communities she has found throughout the region. To find out more about Proudfoot, visit bonnieproudfootblog.wordpress.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Shadelandhouse Modern Press, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1945049650
• ISBN 13: 9781945049651
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 118
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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