Description
Poetry. "Anyone who still wants to view experimentation as a purely intellectual exercise will be convinced otherwise by Donna de la Perrière's exquisite second collection. Under the threat or promise of erasure and at the edge of silence, the poet deftly leads us through a shifting, minimalist landscape. Wrestling with change and stasis, with the resistance and sudden give of the real, she delicately monitors each stage of what feels like a pilgrimage, while defamiliarization pressures vision and makes each breath at once artful and endlessly brave. SAINT ERASURE saves us by exposing the beauty of our vulnerability: 'Welcome to the new body / tonight we lose everything.'"—Laura Mullen
Author Bio
Donna de la Perrière is the author of TRUE CRIME (Talisman House, 2009), SAINT ERASURE (Talisman House, 2010), and WORKS OF LOVE & TERROR (Talisman House, 2019), as well as two chapbooks—Night Calendar (Omerta Publications, 2017) and First Love (The Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange, 2013). She teaches in the MFA and undergraduate creative writing programs at San Francisco State University and California College of the Arts and curates the Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading series in San Francisco.
Author City: OAKLAND, CA USA