Description
Poetry. With irreverent wordplay, Hagerty digs to the roots of language itself, showing the unbreakable links between our inner and outer worlds, and between the world that is "real" and the worlds we can imagine. Her fearless alter-ego, Twinzilla, reawakens in even the most jaded post-modern reader all the powerful fizz our planet needs.
"The poems in TWINZILLA are smart, teasing, dead-serious, marked by keen intelligence and inventive language. Hagerty takes us into a world where 'metaphysics are like candy.' Her narratives leap, inventive and rewarding, embracing motherhood and daughter-hood, scrutinizing questions of meaning and embodiment, weaving from the elegiac to the wryly joyful, showing forth the ways we shadow our own selves."—Jeanne Larsen
Author Bio
Barbara G.S. Hagerty is a native of Charleston, South Carolina. Publications include The Guest House and Motherfish, both from Finishing Line Press. Awarded the 2010-12 Fellowship in Poetry from the South Carolina Arts Commission, she is a member of the Long Table Poets, a workshop led by Richard Garcia. She also co-coordinates the Piccolo Spoleto Sundown Reading Series, held early each summer in Charleston, and is a board member of The Poetry Society of South Carolina. She has worked as a photographer, curator, journalist, essayist, and teacher of poetry and creative non-fiction, and has published several non-fiction books. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars.
Author City: CHARLESTON, SC USA