An Unkindness of Ravens (New Poets of America)
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (897 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1929918097 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Katherine L. Denman said "A Raven's View of Women". If , in our modern world, we ask whether women are still vulnerable, we need only to turn to Meg Kearney's An Unkindness of Ravens for the answer. In "Swan Song" "She knew his boots were full of mudShe felt him watching through the darkShe could smell him now. Beer and cigarettesShe'd known [what he intended to do] by the way he'd come in the door." He had brought the "rush of rain" from the porch into their bedroom"Making a mess of everything."While the effect of a drunken man is strongly demonstrated in one poem, Kearney clearly g. Lead Safe but Changed Out of the Trap An Unkindness of Ravens, The A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America Series, No. 23, Meg Kearney, foreword by Donald Hall (Rochester, New York: BOA, 2001)A thoroughly engaging book, from beginning to end. I didn’t get through a single page without a fully-formed idea for a new poem popping into my head. Kearney believes the poem should be a trap that draws the reader/listener in, leads them through an argument rich in details, rich in comparisons that, although surprising are nonetheless true, and finally ushers them, safe but cha
About the Author Meg Kearney is the Associate Director of the National Book Foundation. She lives in New York City. Sellers Academy of American Poets Prize in 1998. She was the recipient of a 2001 Artist's fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as a fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. . She also received a New York Times fellowship and the Alice M
She lives in New York City. Meg Kearney is the Associate Director of the National Book Foundation. She was the recipient of a 2001 Artist's fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as a fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She also received a New York Times fellowship and the Alice M. Sellers Academy of American Poets Prize in 1998.
She was the recipient of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and New York Times fellowships and received the Alice M. National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet Donald Hall has written the Foreword.Meg Kearney is the Associate Director of the National Book Foundation. She lives in New York City.. In An Unkindness of Ravens, Meg Kearney's poems weave voices of estrangement and redemption: mothers, daughters, lovers of gin and dead things. Sellers Academy of American Poets Prize in 1998. In the middle poems, the protagonist confronts "Raven": a figure of guises and disguises, revealing the speaker's fears and angst