Description
Poetry. "Through the voice of Miss Fernande—Parisian model, prostitute, rumored mistress of Picasso—Gillian Cummings creates a series of exquisite prose poems, thick with longing, loneliness, and corporal beauty. 'What color would God clothe me but red?' Cummings asks, offering the body as both wound and source of pleasure, and later, 'There is a place the soul goes when the body is a field lost to burning.' MY DIM AVIARY is that place. Reader, I implore you to visit."—Allison Benis White
Author Bio
MY DIM AVIARY (Black Lawrence Press, 2016) is Gillian Cummings' first book. She has also written three chapbooks, Ophelia (dancing girl press, forthcoming), Petals as an Offering in Darkness (Finishing Line Press, 2014), and Spirits of the Humid Cloud (dancing girl press, 2012). Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Boulevard, The Cincinnati Review, the Colorado Review, The Cream City Review, Denver Quarterly, The Laurel Review, Linebreak, The Massachusetts Review, The Paris-American, Quarterly West, in other journals and in the anthologies Myrrh, Mothwing, Smoke (Tupelo Press, 2013) and The Doll Collection (Terrapin Books, 2016). In 2008, she was awarded a Dorothy Sargent Memorial Fund Poetry Prize. A graduate of Stony Brook University (BA, English) and of Sarah Lawrence College's MFA program, Gillian lives in Westchester County, New York. She is also a visual artist.
Author City: BRONXVILLE, NY USA