Poetry. In this third collection of darkly humorous and curative poems Rebecca Seiferle quarrels with God and in an attempt to recover what has been banished to the margins, asserts the divine nature of whatever originates on Earth, whether it is a starving boy in a supermarket or the maggots thriving on the skin of a cat. In her tragic and wise poems, even houseflies are divine emissaries. "Thoughtful textured poems by a poet who is able to fuse the intellectual with the visceral" - Library Journal. Seiferle's THE MUSIC WE DANCE TO was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her first book, THE RIPPED-OUT SEAM won the Bogin Memorial, the Writer's Exchange, and the Writer's Union Poetry prizes.

Author City: Tuscon, AZ USA

Rebecca Seiferle is the celebrated author of four collections of poetry, including Wild Tongue, which received the 2008 Grub Street National Book Prize in Poetry; Bitters, awarded the Pushcart Prize; and The Music We Dance To, which won the 1998 Cecil Hemley Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her first book, The Ripped-Out Seam, won the Bogin Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Writers' Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, and the National Writers' Union Prize. Seiferle currently lives in Tucson, Arizona, where she teaches in the English and Fine Arts Department at the Art Center.