Girl Paper Stone - Laurie Filipelli

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Résumé :
In her luminous book, Laurie Filipelli remakes the constellations of a modern life. Her poems re-draw the lines between the parts of the world, helping us to see there are no divisions between planting a plumbago and watching the passage of hateful legislation, no space between grief for a lost father and the wonder of what he's told the speaker: 'the whale's veins are so wide we could swim / to her heart.' By looking so tenderly and incisively at the actual experience of a life, Filipelli makes us see our own differently --Sasha West...

Biographie:
Laurie Filipelli is the author of GIRL PAPER STONE (Black Lawrence Press, 2018) and ELSEPLACE (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013). Her essays and poems have appeared at apt magazine, Boaat, The Pinch, The Rumpus, Salamander, So and So, Superstition Review, Xavier Review and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Yaddo fellowship and lives in Austin where she works as a writer, editor, and writing coach.

Sommaire:
Laurie Filipelli is the author of GIRL PAPER STONE (Black Lawrence Press, 2018) and ELSEPLACE (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013). Her essays and poems have appeared at apt magazine, Boaat, The Pinch, The Rumpus, Salamander, So and So, Superstition Review, Xavier Review and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Yaddo fellowship and lives in Austin where she works as a writer, editor, and writing coach....