Brian Teare

Poem Bitten By a Man (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

*Written in 2021-2022 out of a single poem commissioned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in honor of Jasper John's Mind/Mirror retrospective. Author wanted to write a formally analogous poem to the Jasper Johns painting entitled Fool's House, since something about the painting gave him a way to finally write about his own breakup.

*This capacious work is a tribute to elder artists, friends, caregivers, the broken-hearted and chronically ill and precariously employed.

*After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, Author is now an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville.

*Author's other book, Doomstead Days was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry, is the winner of the Four Quartets Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, Kingsley Tufts, and Lambda Literary Awards. Author is a former Pew Fellow in the Arts, and the recipient of poetry fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, the MacDowell Colony, the American Antiquarian Society, the Fund for Poetry, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Headlands Center for the Arts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nightboat Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781643622255
• Artikelnr.: 68682909

Autorenporträt

A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, Brian Teare is the author of eight chapbooks and six critically acclaimed books, including Companion Grasses, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, and Doomstead Days, winner of the Four Quartets Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, Kingsley Tufts, and Lambda Literary Awards. His most recent publication is the 2022 reissue of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven; his seventh book, Poem Bitten by a Man, is forthcoming from Nightboat in the fall of 2023. His honors include Lambda Literary and Publishing Triangle Awards, and fellowships from the NEA, the Pew Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the MacDowell Colony. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he's now an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia. An editorial board member of Poetry Daily, he lives in Charlottesville, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books. Author residence: Charlottesville, VA