Poetry. The tongue is both voice and body, and WILD TONGUE rages against these global bits, bridles, and palliatives that attempt to calm and control. Combining shocking beauty and compelling directness, Seiferle counterbalances divorce and domestic violence with newfound love and cathartic wit. Her poems, like cave drawings, are inspired by urgency and concern, working into the cracks and controus of truth and wound. Rebecca Seiferle is the editor of the online journal Drunken Boat and has published six volumes of poetry and translation. She lives in Tucson, Arizona. "With a bitter and withering irony and an eye for shocking beauty... Seiferle cuts straight to the emotionally honest kernel within family, spirit, and myth"--Publishers Weekly.

Author City: Tuscon, AZ USA

Rebecca Seiferle is the celebrated author of four collections of poetry, including Wild Tongue, which received the 2008 Grub Street National Book Prize in Poetry; Bitters, awarded the Pushcart Prize; and The Music We Dance To, which won the 1998 Cecil Hemley Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her first book, The Ripped-Out Seam, won the Bogin Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Writers' Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, and the National Writers' Union Prize. Seiferle currently lives in Tucson, Arizona, where she teaches in the English and Fine Arts Department at the Art Center.