Poetry. "Meaning neither nestles nor settles in Ann Fine's complex Nest. Rather, it skates over playful diction and grammatical gaming, bringing levity to this thoughtful book about the evanescent rationality of emotional life. And yet there is also grief here, and the pain of desire, both offset by the beautiful mystical quality of lines such as, 'a sleuth of wind interjects meaning into a room' or, 'I would rather surmise a doctrine of affections, and mirror what is vivid.' A NEST THIS SIZE is a stunning debut"--Jennifer Moxley.

Author City: TUCSON, AZ USA

Ann M. Fine grew up in the house that her paternal great grandfather built in the small mountain town of Prescott, Arizona. Her poems have appeared in the journals Diner, Nocturnes Review of Literary Arts, Sonora Review, Cue, online at NoTell Motel, La Fovea and The Drunken Boat, and elsewhere. She attended undergraduate school at The University of Tampa in Florida, and graduated with an MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars in Vermont, where she studied poetry and architectural history and theory. She has been the director of two community writing centers, Casa Libre en la Solana in Tucson, Arizona, which she also co-founded, and InkTank World Headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. Along with artifice rhetoric and postmodern theory, Ann's passions include architecture and the history of fools/folly/and other humorous literary fodder.