Description
Poetry. "IN NO ONE'S LAND stakes a claim on wilderness and, most assuredly, manages to homestead there. These are not the poems born of quiet contemplation; they are edgy and lurid, painfully administering to the world of convenience stores, diners, one-night stands. 'I locked up all the beautiful things that could move me,' says Paige Ackerson-Kiely, daring to pick at the raw skin of being and call it beauty: 'I am saying God, if you are anywhere, let you be an arctic night.' From the starkness of glaciers to the empty refrigerator, these poems rise from the most barren landscapes and manage to make of them fabled islands, joyful joyful things."—D. A. Powell, judge of the Sawtooth Poetry Prize
"It is a rare and welcome thing to encounter a collection which possesses such authority, such an unassuming combination of inevitability and strangeness. It is rarer still to find these qualities in a first book. Paige Ackerson-Kiely's haunted and compelling poems are terse but expansive, and fierce in their disdain of posturing or trivia. IN NO ONE'S LAND introduces us to a poet of genuine originality—and immense talent."—David Wojahn
Author Bio
Paige Ackerson-Kiely is the author of MY LOVE IS A DEAD ARCTIC EXPLORER, IN NO ONE'S LAND, and other works of poetry and prose. She lives in rural Vermont, co- edits A Handsome Journal, and works at a homeless shelter.
Author City: West Addison, VT USA