Description
Poetry. "TRUE CRIME is a fitting title for this sympathetic and sometimes harrowing family portrait of the American South: the uncle who absconded with the insurance money, the boyfriend who cares more about his muscle car than his dead girlfriend. The author and sometime subject of the poems spins from the loom of words 'not the wreck but a conjectural / reconstruction of the wreck.' In such a fragile, wobbling world, language acts as the only shield. This is a wonderful and brave book, offering the true fictions of our actual darkness."—Paul Hoover
Author Bio
Donna de la Perrière is the author of TRUE CRIME (Talisman House, 2009), SAINT ERASURE (Talisman House, 2010), and WORKS OF LOVE & TERROR (Talisman House, 2019), as well as two chapbooks—Night Calendar (Omerta Publications, 2017) and First Love (The Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange, 2013). She teaches in the MFA and undergraduate creative writing programs at San Francisco State University and California College of the Arts and curates the Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading series in San Francisco.
Author City: OAKLAND, CA USA