Description
Poetry. "Renée Ashley's stunning new book is indeed a 'view from the body,' but it's a 'body named / bone, named brain.' Haunted at times by the dead, by the past, by death itself, Ashley finds her most frequent specter in the self and its disturbances, which few poets since Dickinson have explored so unflinchingly. Language is the means of both exploration and transcendence: words burst into double meanings, invent themselves, and reverse our linguistic expectations, carried throughout by the musical exuberance of consonant and vowel. Taut, resonant, lyrical, edgy, these poems are, as one title has it, 'Such Threads of Light As Exist in Deep Pools.'"—Martha Collins
Author Bio
Renée Ashley's hybrid collection of essays, Minglements: Prose on Poetry and Life, was published in 2019, as was RUINED TRAVELER (Otis Books | Seismicity Editions). She is also the author of a novel and six previous volumes of poetry: most recently, THE VIEW FROM THE BODY (Black Lawrence Press) and BECAUSE I AM THE SHORE I WANT TO BE THE SEA (Subito Book Prize, University of Colorado-Boulder). A portion of her poem, "First Book of the Moon," is included in a permanent installation by the Artist Larry Kirkland in Penn Station, NYC. She has received fellowships in both poetry and prose from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. Ashley lives in northern New Jersey and is on the faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University's two low-residency graduate programs, the MFA in Creative Writing and the MA in Creative Writing and Literature for Educators.
Author City: RINGWOOD, NJ USA