Poetry. The speaker of Brigitte Byrd's debut volume pivots in the roles of mourning daughter, affectionate mother, and poet whose attention to the sensory and sensual world never falters. In language both musical and linguistically playful, Byrd revivifies the form of unlineated lyric that in her hands reminds us of its French forebears and could never be termed "prosaic." These poems haunt, ache, and celebrate by turns; always they sing. "She is a wise, ebullient poet whose prose poems are mosaics of humor and loss, a playful requiem for life as it is in this dangerous new century"--Maxine Chernoff

Author City: MORROW, GA USA

A native of France where she was trained as a dancer, Brigitte Byrd is the author of SONG OF A LIVING ROOM (Ahsahta, 2009), The Dazzling Land (Black Zinnias, 2008), and FENCE ABOVE THE SEA (Ahsahta, 2005). New poems recently appeared or forthcoming in the anthology Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years (Snow*Vigate Press, with an introduction by Brian Evenson) and literary magazines such as Lilies and Cannonballs, Quarter After Eight, Tarpaulin Sky, Coconut Poetry, and DENVER QUARTERLY, among others. Brigitte's work has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. She is the first-prize poetry winner of the St. Petersburg (Russia) Summer Literary Seminar 2000. She received a PhD in English/Creative Writing from Florida State University in 2003. Brigitte currently lives in the southern crescent of Atlanta with her daughter and their menagerie and teaches Creative Writing at Clayton State University. She is also an editorial reviewer for Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies and writes micro-reviews for Oranges & Sardines.

Reviews and Other Links
http://www.forewordmagazine.com/fence-above-sea
http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Reviews/Fence_Above_the_Sea.html
http://www.wordforword.info/vol11/king.htm
http://a-s.clayton.edu/bbyrd/wh_2-7-06.mp3