Jersey Mercy - Laura Mccullough

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Résumé :
Poetry. Set along the Jersey shore, before and after Hurricane Sandy, these narratives vividly capture the lives and speech of Jersey denizens like Mercy, a young waitresses, and Tino, a boardwalk musician. Piers, racetracks, and bars endure natural disasters. Mercy, too, endures. McCullough's craft is striking. Her portraits are empathic, alive. The lines are drenched with music. Words surge, crash precisely on the page. JERSEY MERCY is a gorgeous interrogation of language and landscape.--Eduardo C. Corral...

Sommaire:
Laura McCullough has published six collections of poetry and edited two anthologies with University Presses including most recently A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race (University of Georgia Press). Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Georgia Review, American Poetry Review, The Writer's Chronicle, Guernica, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and many other journals and magazines. She has been awarded two NJ State Arts Council Fellowships, one in poetry and one in prose and has had scholarships, fellowships, or residencies at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Nebraska Summer Writers Conference, Sewanee Writers Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Arts, the Betsy House, and Marble House. She has been a Dodge Poetry Festival poet, a Florida Writers Circuit poet, and a Decatur Book Festival poet. She teaches in the Sierra Nevada College Low-residency MFA program....