Description
Poetry. Winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize 2012. The poems in LULLABY (WITH EXIT SIGN), explore the very nature of the elegy as rite, memorial, mechanism for healing, and raw utterance. Bar-Nadav asks, what is the shape of grief—its forms, silences, and sounds? The muscular music of her language and whip-sharp syntax join forces with startling imagery. Prose poems dominate the collection, held in place by the phantom scaffolding of lineated verse in which the poet listens for her father who "knocks on a little paper door."
"This grand third book is a scrupulously crafted, brilliantly conceived sequence of poems. An essential and ravishing work."—Lynn Emanuel
Author Bio
Hadara Bar-Nadav, recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, is the author of THE NEW NUDITY (Saturnalia, 2017), LULLABY (WITH EXIT SIGN)(Saturnalia, 2013), THE FRAME CALLED RUIN (New Issues, 2012), and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House, 2007). She is also co-author of a best-selling textbook, Writing Poems (Longman, 8th edition). She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri in Kansas City.
Author City: KANSAS CITY, MO USA