Eve - Bernfeld, Betsy
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Eve, the universal name for the feminine, is the title of Betsy Orient Bernfeld's new poetry chapbook. It takes place in the home, in the court, on the sea, on the road, on the run. A woman gives birth in a tree, learns to raise the mailsail alone on the ocean, encounters violence against women, lives with fertility and infertility, suffers through an eating disorder, smokes cigars with the guys, hides in plain sight. It addresses loves, losses, dreams and a woman's touch: "Think of a feather . . . don't hold your breath when touching, imagine blowing a feather." Bernfeld is a librarian, lawyer and writer in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.…mehr

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Eve, the universal name for the feminine, is the title of Betsy Orient Bernfeld's new poetry chapbook. It takes place in the home, in the court, on the sea, on the road, on the run. A woman gives birth in a tree, learns to raise the mailsail alone on the ocean, encounters violence against women, lives with fertility and infertility, suffers through an eating disorder, smokes cigars with the guys, hides in plain sight. It addresses loves, losses, dreams and a woman's touch: "Think of a feather . . . don't hold your breath when touching, imagine blowing a feather." Bernfeld is a librarian, lawyer and writer in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Autorenporträt
Originally from Tucson, Arizona, Betsy Orient Bernfeld is a writer, librarian and lawyer in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. She has received awards for her journalism and fiction, and three of her short plays have been produced by Wyoming community theater companies. Her anthology of historical Wyoming poetry, Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming Stuph, was published by Media Publishing in Kansas City, MO, and her own poems have recently appeared in Black Hills Literary Journal; High Desert Journal; Manifest West; Third Wednesday; Crosswinds Poetry Journal; Southwestern American Literature; Blood, Water, Wind, and Stone: An Anthology of Wyoming Writers; and three WyoPoets chapbooks: Labyrinth, This Box for Dreams, and Watershed. Betsy's poetry chapbook, entitled Eve, was released by Finishing Line Press in 2018. She is winner of the Wyoming Arts Council's 2020 Creative Writing Fellowship for Poetry. In her latest collection, The Cathedral Is Burning, Betsy's poetry dances between desert and mountains, cathedral and home in a lamentation for the loss of Mothers, Grandmothers and Mother Earth.¿