Poetry. Invoking theorists, philosophers, and such poets as John Berryman and Lyn Hejinian, the poems of Brigitte Byrd's third book ask the reader to follow a ribbon threaded among music, movies, poetics, and an unlinear sense of time. Its prose poems recount and deconstruct a relationship between two central characters experiencing this journey "Like an authentic vision. Like slipping into a Celtic knot. Like a new perception of space."
"Brigitte Byrd writes dense, lovely, provocative poems. Their prose forms and often rational diction are an entrancing shell game showing and shifting and showing again the true passion and lyricism of her work. In this way, she illuminates the eternal struggle that our minds and our bodies and our hearts are always engaged in with each other and with themselves. SONG OF A LIVING ROOM is a splendid collection."—Robert Olen Butler
Author City: MORROW, GA USA
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A native of France where she was trained as a dancer, Brigitte Byrd is the author of SONG OF A LIVING ROOM (Ahsahta, 2009), The Dazzling Land (Black Zinnias, 2008), and FENCE ABOVE THE SEA (Ahsahta, 2005). New poems recently appeared or forthcoming in the anthology Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years (Snow*Vigate Press, with an introduction by Brian Evenson) and literary magazines such as Lilies and Cannonballs, Quarter After Eight, Tarpaulin Sky, Coconut Poetry, and DENVER QUARTERLY, among others. Brigitte's work has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. She is the first-prize poetry winner of the St. Petersburg (Russia) Summer Literary Seminar 2000. She received a PhD in English/Creative Writing from Florida State University in 2003. Brigitte currently lives in the southern crescent of Atlanta with her daughter and their menagerie and teaches Creative Writing at Clayton State University. She is also an editorial reviewer for Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies and writes micro-reviews for Oranges & Sardines.
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