Description
Poetry. LOOMING by Jennifer Franklin is one of the winners of the 14th Annual Elixir Press Poetry Awards. It is a painful and beautiful book that promises redemption and light.
"Jennifer Franklin has taken the true path to her terrible story, one of the most wrenching in all our human circumstance. She has found—of course I mean by that verb a translation of the classical meaning: she has 'invented' the one classical myth that can serve her meaning in its ultimate truths. Nothing in the occasion has been missed, but all is wonderfully changed, and Franklin has joined Tennyson on the other side of pain, it is ecstasy."—Richard Howard
Author Bio
Jennifer Franklin concentrated in English and Creative Writing at Brown University (AB cum laude, 1994). She attended Columbia University School of the Arts as a Harvey Baker Fellow (MFA, 1996). Poems from LOOMING debuted in the Paris Review's "Ten New Poets" issue in 1996. Her poetry has appeared widely in literary magazines and journals such as Antioch Review, Gettysburg Review, Pequod, Southwest Review, Western Humanities Review, New England Review, The Nation, Salmagundi, Boston Review, Poetry Daily, and Guernica. Her work has been translated into Romanian and Portuguese. A selection of her poetry is featured in Andrew Solomon's award-winning book, Far From the Tree. Her chapbook, Persephone's Ransom (Finishing Line Press), was published in September 2011. Franklin is co-editor of Slapering Hol Press, the small press imprint of The Hudson Valley Writers' Center. She teaches poetry workshops at The Hudson Valley Writers' Center and lives in New York City.
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA