Poetry. "The Miranda of the brilliant opening sequence in Kathleen Aguero's new collection, DAUGHTER OF embodies Gilles and Guatarri's radical insight, from ANTI-OEDIPUS, that "the unconsciousness is an orphan and creates itself out of nature and man." Forged of equal parts will and insight, the Miranda who abandons her fate for the dark lore of her mother and brother is the mind and heart that course through all of the poems of this collection. Wide ranging and masterful in form, they wed sheer lyric gorgeousness with discursive gravity" Linda McCarriston. Be sure to check out Kathleen Aguero's other book, THE REAL WEATHER, also available from SPD.

Author City: CAMBRIDGE, MA USA

Kathleen Aguero's most recent book of poetry, DAUGHTER OF, is published by Cedar Hill Books. She is also the author of two previous books of poetry, Thirsty Day (Alice James Books) and THE REAL WEATHER (Hanging Loose Press). Kathleen has edited three volumes of multicultural literature published by the University of Georgia Press: A Gift of Tongues and An Ear to the Ground (co-edited with Marie Harris), and Daily Fare. She also has an essay in the anthology, Why I'm Still Married. Her work has been published in many literary journals and anthologized in Poetry from Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology, Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School, Pierced by a Ray of Sun, Peeling the Onion, and City River of Voices. She has been a recipient of grants from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and the Elgin Cox Foundation, a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a Visiting Research Associate at the Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center. Kathleen teaches in Changing Lives Through Literature, "an alternative sentencing program based on the power of literature to change lives through reading and group discussion," and is a Professor of English at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, MA, teaching in their low-residency MFA program as well as in their undergraduate program.