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In Velvet: New and Selected Poems

In Velvet: New and Selected Poems

Bryner, Jeanne

Hardcover

General NatureGeneral ParentingGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1947504460
ISBN13: 9781947504462
Publisher: Bottom Dog Press
Published: Oct 14 2024
Pages: 202
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Jeanne Bryner works language, opens it unexpectedly, pries meanings and memories, spins gold from mud, and always hears and speaks the sorrows and hopes of working people. This collection is restorative, an immense and moving achievement.

-Janet Zandy

Jeanne Bryner asks of us, Where are the great studies on buried miners/burned women, displaced steel workers/the lost towns gutted like deer/people left to choose between the river and the sky? In this new collection of poetry, Bryner celebrates and mourns those unstudied and unsung. With stunning specificity, she catalogs their courage: the nurse who, from a blue paper cup, baptizes a dying husband; the firefighter kneeling beside the gurney of a toddler; a schoolteacher carrying a disabled child down/every/single/step/in those ivory pumps. Bryner's tender rendering of the unsung reminds us of our fleeting connection between the river and sky. - Geraldine Gorman

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