Poetry. The true weight of these poems is held in a language grown from an experience of caring for another, caring for one self and caring for someone who desires no care whatsoever. When the caregiver in these poems is still a young girl, either her poems will filter out of this hardship or nothing else will come of it but some horrified silence.

Author City: Salt Lake City, UT USA

Shawn Fawson spent her childhood in Italy, Switzerland, and a remote coastal village 200 miles north of Tokyo. She lives with her family and works with people and their end-of-life concerns at a hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her MFA is from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has two chapbooks out--Abandoned Sightings and Historiographies (2008) from New American Press, and Waking One World to Hush Another (2009) from Tiger's Eye Press. A few other honors include the Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award (2005), the Phyllis Smart Young Poetry Prize, an American Academy of Poet's Award, and Notable in Best American Essays 2008. GIVING WAY is her first full-length book.