Description
Poetry. Women's Studies. "A speaker in GLASS ACTRESS asks, 'Can I even be sexually appealing / without a gun or a cigarette?' Women who have never been perplexed by this question may cast the first stone. Just what I thought—silence. Nicole Steinberg's poems sparkle, delight, shimmer, and let light through as they display their vulnerable fragility. Women's bodies—a deceased mother, hypothetical children of the future, young and old, fat and thin—shimmer on the surface belying their scholarly depths and private dreams. These poems capture what it is to be alive, alert, in this cultural moment." —Denise Duhamel
"Nicole Steinberg's poems are the friends you're going to need to get by. They are a way of life—art that doesn't let us off the hook, poetry that doesn't thank us profusely just for showing up. Each of them is an oasis of clarity in the blurry, poorly written American fiction that passes itself off as our day-to-day existence. You're going to want to cling to these poems." —Catie Rosemurgy
Author Bio
Nicole Steinberg is the author of Getting Lucky (Spooky Girlfriend Press, 2013) and Clever Little Gang, winner of the 4X4 Furniture Press Chapbook Award (2014), as well as two chapbooks from dancing girl press: Undressing(2014) and Birds of Tokyo (2011). She is also the editor of an anthology, Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms with Queens (SUNY Press, 2011). Her work has been featured or reviewed in The New York Times, Newsweek, Flavorwire, Bitch, and Hyperallergic, and her poetry was selected by Penn State's Pennsylvania Center for the Book for the 2016 Public Poetry Project poster series. She's the founder of New York's EARSHOT reading series and she lives in Philadelphia.
Author City: Philadelphia, PA USA