Kathryn Nuernberger

Rue (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Rue is the third poetry collection by Kathryn Nuernberger. Her previous book, The End of Pink (BOA, 2016) won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.

Nuernberger is well known for blending scientific research, feminist theory, and confessional poetry in her work. Her previous collection, The End of Pink, was praised by critics and readers alike for her deft blending of poetry, historical scholarship, and memoir, which she continues in this new collection.

Rue directly responds to the #MeToo movement and the ongoing debate over women's rights in poems that directly address the speaker's abuse at the OBGYN office, the history of medicinal plants used for birth control, and the pressure for women in rural communities to marry and have children.

Nuernberger digs deep into the science and folklore surrounding common medicinal plants native to the American Midwest, from Queen Anne's lace and Black-Eyed Susan to Bull Thistle and others. High crossover appeal for botanists, folklorists, historians, naturalists, herbalists, and women concerned about continued access to birth control in conservative regions.

The cultural divide between urban and rural voters is likely to become a major campaign issue during the 2020 election. Numerous poems in Rue explore the frustrations and isolation the speaker experiences as a college educator and artist living in rural Missouri.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BOA Editions Ltd.
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781942683988
• Artikelnr.: 58762886

Autorenporträt

Kathryn Nuernberger is the author of two previous poetry collections, The End of Pink and Rag & Bone. She has also written a collection of lyric essays, Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past. Fascinated by the history of science and the natural world, she has received research fellowships from the H. J. Andrews Research Forest, American Antiquarian Society and the Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life. Other awards include an NEA fellowship and the James Laughlin Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Her poems and essays have appeared widely in journals, including 32 Poems, Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, Field, The Florida Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Poetry International, West Branch, Willow Springs, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Ohio University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University. After spending many years directing Pleiades Press, she now teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Minnesota and lives with her family in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN.