Poetry. "TRUE CRIME is a fitting title for this sympathetic and sometimes harrowing family portrait of the American South: the uncle who absconded with the insurance money, the boyfriend who cares more about his muscle car than his dead girlfriend. The author and sometime subject of the poems spins from the loom of words 'not the wreck but a conjectural / reconstruction of the wreck.' In such a fragile, wobbling world, language acts as the only shield. This is a wonderful and brave book, offering the true fictions of our actual darkness."—Paul Hoover

Author City: OAKLAND, CA USA

Donna de la Perrière is the author of SAINT ERASURE (2010) and TRUE CRIME (2009), both from Talisman House. The recipient of a 2009 Fund for Poetry award, she teaches in the MFA and undergraduate creative writing programs at California College of the Arts and San Francisco State University and curates the Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading series.

Reviews and Other Links
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Caroline Goodwin @ Gently Read Literature
Nathan Hauke @ H_NGM_N
Jon Curley @ Galatea Resurrects