Danusha Laméris

Blade by Blade (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

• At its core, Blade by Blade is a collection about grief. It will touch readers who have lost children or siblings, and offers a path towards acceptance through embracing the beauty and power of nature.
• Laméris served as the Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California
• Laméris won the Northern California Book Award and the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award
• The final poem in the collection, Let Rain Be Rain, was commissioned by Montage Health Monterey and is shared in the waiting room of the Breast Cancer Center
• Laméris was a painter before she was a poet. She began writing in adulthood after she found a flier for a poetry class being taught by Ellen Bass (they are now friends).
• Potential audiences: readers who identify with African American/Caribbean American communities; people who have lost a loved one to suicide; parents who have lost a child; fans of nature, ecopoets, animal-watchers, and human-animal relationships

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Copper Canyon Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781619323087
• Artikelnr.: 72272971

Autorenporträt

Danusha Laméris, a poet and essayist, was raised in Northern California, born to a Dutch father and Barbadian mother. Her first book, The Moons of August (2014), was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. Some of her work has been published in The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, Orion, and The American Poetry Review. Her second book, Bonfire Opera (University of Pittsburgh Press), was a finalist for the 2021 Paterson Poetry Award and recipient of the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. She is currently on the faculty of Pacific University's low residency MFA program. She co-founded The Hive Poetry Collective, a radio show, podcast, and event hub in Santa Cruz, California, where she was the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate, and co-leads the HearthFire Writing Community and Poetry of Resilience.