Description
Poetry. "Her painful evocations of Argentina during the dirty war (she grew up in Buenos Aires), her re-creations of Irish history (where her maternal ancestors lived and died), her tender poems of love and family, her acute eye for detail and her mind for clarity, her powerful, sensuous and humane imagination, her language full of surprises, make Lorraine Healy one of the finest emerging poets I know. Yes, the personal is the political--and the political is the personal. When I read THE HABIT OF BUENOS AIRES I feel this deep in my bones, and with deep gratitude"--Alicia Ostriker
Author Bio
A native of Argentina, Lorraine Healy is of Irish and Italian ancestry. She is the first poet to have received a green card soley on the merits of her work. She has published two chapbooks and was nominated for a Pushcart in 2004. Ms. Healy received her M.F.A. in Poetry from New England College, New Hampshire, and a post-M.F.A. from Antioch University, Los Angeles. She has long made her home on Whidbey Island, Washington, where she teaches poetry and works as a fine arts photographer.
Author City: Whidbey Island, WA USA