Poetry. In this second collection of poems, Anne Caston struggles with reason and faith and the "whole thorn-torn mess a world can sometimes be." The poems consider humanness in all its extremes and they do not flinch or look away, even when the speaker herself stands at the "frayed rope-end of hope." JUDAH'S LION, in the end, is a book of redemption and the necessary compassion we need to face the beauty and terror of our lives.

Author City: PALMYRA, PA USA

Anne Caston is the author of two collections of poetry: Flying Out With The Wounded (New York University Press, 1997) and JUDAH'S LION (Toad Hall Press, 2009). She is Associate Professor of Poetry in Low-Residency MFA Program at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; Ruth and Jay C. Halls Fellowship in Poetry (University of Madison-Wisconsin); and the Jenny McKean Moore Fellowship in Poetry (The George Washington University). She has twice received UAF's "Excellence in Teaching Award." Anne lives with her husband now in Pennsylvania and is at work on a memoir about growing up among Southern Baptists (Deep Dixie) and a third collection of poems (The Empress of Longing).

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