Partial Genius - Mary Biddinger

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Résumé :
What happens when you finally realize that you are really good, but only at unremarkable things? What value does memory hold when weighed against heavier commodities such as money and time and conventional beauty? The prose poems of PARTIAL GENIUS build upon the form in a collective narrative, working in unison to craft a larger story. Post-youth and mid-epiphany, PARTIAL GENIUS ponders the years spent waiting for reconciliation of past wrongs, the acknowledgment of former selves, and the desire to truly fit into one landscape or another....

Sommaire:
Mary Biddinger's most recent poetry collection is Department of Elegy (Black Lawrence Press, 2022). She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Cleveland Arts Prize, National Endowment for the Arts, and Ohio Arts Council. Her flash fiction novella titled The Girl with the Black Lipstick will be published by Black Lawrence Press in 2025. She teaches creative writing at the University of Akron and in the NEOMFA program....