The Water Draft - Peary, Alexandria
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Alexandria Peary, writing in the unsentimental tradition of Bishop and Moore, transports their delectable particularity into our distractible age. Any collection of objects, as Peary knows, makes a still life, whatever the forces that propelled them together: every material fact, be it a word or a movie star or a desk, has the potential to fascinate, when it falls into a receptive line of vision. The Water Draft has an idea of order, but Peary is always pushing past it and into her very own territory, where the unexpected can occur, and does, with satisfying regularity. Peary writes singular…mehr

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Alexandria Peary, writing in the unsentimental tradition of Bishop and Moore, transports their delectable particularity into our distractible age. Any collection of objects, as Peary knows, makes a still life, whatever the forces that propelled them together: every material fact, be it a word or a movie star or a desk, has the potential to fascinate, when it falls into a receptive line of vision. The Water Draft has an idea of order, but Peary is always pushing past it and into her very own territory, where the unexpected can occur, and does, with satisfying regularity. Peary writes singular poems with "a ballpoint pen / found in a ruined villa." Donna Stonecipher, author of Model City
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Alexandria Peary is the author of five previous books: Control Bird Alt Delete, Lid to the Shadow, Fall Foliage Called Bathers & Dancers, Creative Writing Pedagogy for the Twenty-First Century (with Tom C. Hunley), and Prolific Moment: Theory and Practice of Mindfulness for Writing. Her work has received the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Slope Editions Book Prize, and the Joseph Langland Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her poems have been featured at Poetry Daily and Verse Daily and are listed at the Poetry Foundation: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/alexandria-peary Alexandria's theory of mindful writing is the subject of the blog, http://www.prolificmoment.com/ Her degrees include a MFA from the University of Iowa, a MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a PhD from the University of New Hampshire. She is a professor in the English Department at Salem State University where for eight years she administered the First-Year Writing Program and where she now teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in poetry, nonfiction, fiction, creative writing pedagogy, and mindful writing.