Description
Poetry. "'How strange it is to live in these bodies /and pretend we are not judged,' writes Becka McKay in her newest collection, THE LITTLE BOOK OF NO CONSOLATION. McKay's imagination takes us far away from our earthly bodies through dreamscapes of terror and possibility. With a fanciful Dictionary of Misremembered English and mistranslated phrases as her guide, she reimagines Biblical figures, governments, and language's very syntax. McKay spins her poems as though spinning plates, on a pole of syntax all her own, the gyroscopic effect dazzling."—Denise Duhamel
Author Bio
Becka Mara McKay directs the MFA in Creative Writing at Florida Atlantic University, where she also serves as faculty advisor to Swamp Ape Review. Publications includes two book of poems, THE LITTLE BOOK OF NO CONSOLATION (Barrow Street Press, 2021) and A METEOROLOGIST IN THE PROMISED LAND (Shearsman Books, 2010); and a chapbook of prose poems, Happiness Is the New Bedtime. She has translated the work of Shimon Adaf, Alex Epstein, Suzane Adam, and others from Modern Hebrew.
Author City: BOCA RATON, FL USA