Stone of Language (eBook)

Anya Achtenberg (Autor)

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2020
110 Seiten
Distributed By PublishDrive (Verlag)
978-1-61599-502-8 (ISBN)

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ANYA ACHTENBERG is an award-winning author of the novel Blue Earth, and novella, The Stories of Devil-Girl (both with Modern History Press); and poetry books,  The Stone of Language (West End Press); and I Know What the Small Girl Knew(Holy Cow! Press). Her fiction has received awards from Coppola's Zoetrope: All-Story, New Letters, the Asheville Fiction Workshop, the Raymond Carver Story Contest, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and more; andpoetry awards include first prizes from Southern Poetry Reviewand Another Chicago Magazine.Individual works of fiction and poetry have also been published in Harvard Review; Malpaís Review; Gargoyle; Tupelo Quarterly; The Mas Tequila Review; Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion; Hinchas de poesía; Poet Lore; Taos International Journal; Paterson Review; and numerous others. Prior to the 2004 publication of The Stone of Language, various versions of this manuscript won recognition as a finalist in five competitions: the Philip Levine Poetry Contest, the Hayden Carruth Award from Copper Canyon Press, the May Swenson Award from Utah State University Press, Cleveland State University's Poetry Center Prize, and the Alice James Books Awards.
'Achtenberg is a poet of lyrical intensity... interested in detail for the wealth of revelation and music it will yield up'
-- Luis H. Francia, The Village Voice
'Anya Achtenberg's visionary workshops on writing for social change have received national acclaim. With this book of poetry, she practices what she preaches--redreaming a just world--in a way that is simply breathtaking.'
-- Demetria Martinez, author of Mother Tongue
'Stunning and original! Powerful 'make it new' language'
-- Stratis Haviaras, founder and editor of Harvard Review

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ANYA ACHTENBERG is an award-winning author of the novel Blue Earth, and novella, The Stories of Devil-Girl (both with Modern History Press); and poetry books, The Stone of Language (West End Press); and I Know What the Small Girl Knew(Holy Cow! Press). Her fiction has received awards from Coppola's Zoetrope: All-Story, New Letters, the Asheville Fiction Workshop, the Raymond Carver Story Contest, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and more; andpoetry awards include first prizes from Southern Poetry Reviewand Another Chicago Magazine.Individual works of fiction and poetry have also been published in Harvard Review; Malpais Review; Gargoyle; Tupelo Quarterly; The Mas Tequila Review; Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion; Hinchas de poesia; Poet Lore; Taos International Journal; Paterson Review; and numerous others. Prior to the 2004 publication of The Stone of Language, various versions of this manuscript won recognition as a finalist in five competitions: the Philip Levine Poetry Contest, the Hayden Carruth Award from Copper Canyon Press, the May Swenson Award from Utah State University Press, Cleveland State University's Poetry Center Prize, and the Alice James Books Awards."e;Achtenberg is a poet of lyrical intensity... interested in detail for the wealth of revelation and music it will yield up"e;-- Luis H. Francia, The Village Voice"e;Anya Achtenberg's visionary workshops on writing for social change have received national acclaim. With this book of poetry, she practices what she preaches--redreaming a just world--in a way that is simply breathtaking."e;-- Demetria Martinez, author of Mother Tongue"e;Stunning and original! Powerful 'make it new' language"e;-- Stratis Haviaras, founder and editor of Harvard Review

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: American • General • Novel • Poetry • Women authors
• ISBN-10: 1-61599-502-1 / 1615995021
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61599-502-8 / 9781615995028