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House Where a Woman by Lori Wilson
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ISBN (paperback): 978-1932870251 About the Book Wilson’s seemingly quiet lines will haunt you, hunt you down in the middle of the night, and change the way you feel about peace and quiet….[She] gives us women on motorcycles, women on country roads, women on the verge of flight as we are delivered straight to the reckoning: what days and nights brought us here and what prices have been paid? This is a book that is in love with sound and precision in an organic, necessary way—giving us more and more faces to whatever can be called truth, giving us an astonishing range of play, tenderness, and brave voices—arousing us to our own desire.
—Jan Beatty In House Where a Woman, Lori Wilson asks how we find a way to see the ordinary world for the beauty that it can be—and how to shed the regrets over the past and the fears of the future that prevent us from living defiantly in a present that we have the power to shape for ourselves. These poems combine courage and vulnerability, the joys and sorrows of what it means to be fully alive. —Carl Phillips The ‘house’ of Lori Wilson’s title is filled with contradictions and complexities, shrewdly and lovingly embraced. She speaks in ardent imperatives—“Listen. Look. Picture this.”—and writes equally confidently about Praetorius and cut-leaved toothwort, about Muriel Rukeyser and fiddlehead ferns. These are poems that richly reward multiple readings—a lovely stew of a book with a surprise on every page. —Maggie Anderson About the Author Born in Carrollton, Kentucky, Lori Wilson was raised in Western Pennsylvania and has lived in Morgantown, West Virginia for nearly twenty years. She studied economics at Brigham Young and Harvard Universities and currently works as a computer systems analyst. In 2001, she was awarded first place in the West Virginia Emerging Writers Poetry Competition. Her poetry has appeared in various literary journals and publications, including the new anthology, Along These Rivers, Poetry and Photography from Pittsburgh (Quadrant Publishing, 2008). Lori has four grown children. House Where a Woman is her first published book. |
