Poetry. "In spirited kinship with the poems of Frank O'Hara and Gertrude Stein's notion of the continuous present, WONDERBENDER presents a vibrant, textured world of 'mysterious kindness,' 'a magnificent place to visit.' Here, one is 'chosen by llamas...do not doubt us they say and the choosing is definite though the plot sometimes unclear.' Like those llamas, these poems privilege associative energy and revelatory, exuberant choosing over plot as they unfold with great enchantment and authority to reveal a skewed, at times tragic, often funny, acutely observed world. One feels lucky to be in their presence."—Laurie Sheck

Author City: DEDHAM, MA USA

Diane Wald was born in Paterson, NJ, and has lived in Massachusetts since 1972. She was the recipient of a two-year fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and has been awarded the Grolier Poetry Prize, the Denny Award, the Open Voice Award, the Anne Halley Prize, and a grant from the Artists Foundation (Massachusetts Council on the Arts). Her chapbooks are Target of Roses, My Hat That Was Dreaming, Double Mirror, Improvisations on Titles of Works by Jean Dubuffet, and faustinetta, gegenschein, trapunto, and she won the Green Lake Chapbook Award from Owl Creek Press. Her poetry collections are Lucid Suitcase, THE YELLOW HOTEL, and WONDERBENDER.

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