Description
Poetry. "Think of a deer, nervously alert, stepping into a meadow hushed with dawn light. That is the way language moves in Tiff Dressen's poetry. Every pause, every space in this work seems charged by a presence that holds both promise and danger. Addressed to a mysterious Other, these messages arrive from an interior so deep as to become exterior, "extended from your solar heart / to your sun blade." Dressen, returning to poetry's sources in the elemental, offers oracular voicings—sure in their hesitation, bold in their trembling—in which, with dreamlike clarity, one can "see / the whole earth / breathing."—Andrew Joron
Author Bio
Tiff Dressen was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. SONGS FROM THE ASTRAL BESTIARY (lyric& Press, 2014) is her first full-length collection of poetry. She currently lives in Oakland and works in the Office of Research at UC Berkeley. She is the author of Keeper (Woodland Editions, 2005), Because Icarus-children (WinteRed Press, December 2010) and for Aeolus: variations on the element (co-published by the g.e. collective and Poetry Flash, 2011). Her work has appeared in many journals including New American Writing, VOLT and 26: A journal of poetry and poetics.
Author City: OAKLAND, CA USA