Poetry. The short stanzas in QUOTIDIAN follow one upon the other as the days, attempting to catch the nature of the ordinary as it intersects language. The chapbook pursues the questions: what is familiar; when does the strange become familiar; when does the salient fade into the unseen and when does the ordinary become uncannily strange? Saddlestapled chapbook.
Author City: LOS ANGELES, CA USA
Martha Ronk is the author of eight books, most recently Why/Why Not (University of California Press, 2003); IN A LANDSCAPE OF HAVING TO REPEAT, (Omnidawn, 2004), a PEN USA best poetry book; and VERTIGO (Coffee House Press, 2007), a National Poetry Series selection. She is also the author of Glass Grapes and Other Stories (BOA Editions, 2008) and teaches Renaissance literature and creative writing at Occidental College in Los Angeles.