Small Enterprise - Biddinger, Mary

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Résumé :
Poetry. The time: creeping toward the millennium, yet before Y2K panic inspires everyone to stockpile bottled water and cheap wine. The place: a Midwestern metropolis with echoes of Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit, a city trying to preserve the past as a future arrives with gut rehabs and shuttered churches. The dramatis personae: corner bar denizens, bad girls with big plans, novels and their writers, a petulant lake, flocks of grandmothers with rosaries, a wrecking ball or two. Mary Biddinger's fourth full- length collection of poems, SMALL ENTERPRISE, introduces us to a world of risk and risk management, a continual struggle to stay afloat, and a hot triangular romance between man, woman, and city....

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....