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A riotous yet deceptively serious addition to Adrian Blevins' oeuvre, Status Pending exquisitely leverages the lyric to fathom the liminality of human experience. These poems comprise a stenography of our lives as the buffering consciousness between voided states. Blevins straddles various faultlines as a woman who writes and mothers, who emerges from a second divorce as an Appalachian transplant in New England, who sees from midlife the strin...

In Bloodline, Adrian Blevins deepens her exploration into those areas which have always been the focus of her poetry: babies, mortality and an anxious kind of mother love. But she does not stop there. Blevins settles her unflinching gaze on new subjects ranging from Greek myth to political poetry, revealing a catalogue of losses in language that is by turns, celebratory, edgy, stylized, sad, and sassy. The poems riff on the irreconcilable diff...

Molten and musical poetry from an acclaimed Southern writer

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In essays that take wide-ranging forms-ideal for creative nonfiction classes-established and emerging writers with roots in Appalachia take on the theme of silencing in Appalachian culture. They write about families left behind, hard-earned educations, selves transformed, identities chosen, and risks taken.

This is a valuable resource for scholars, students, writers, and general readers interested in creative nonfiction both from specific areas of the US south and across the region as a whole. The writers included in each volume come from diverse backgrounds, generations, and artistic traditions.

Features a non-traditional narrative that traces a movement from South to North, exploring along the way the death of innocence, motherhood, sexuality, and the rewards and costs of marriage and other forms of familial 'hoodwink and swindle'.

Winner of the prestigious Kate Tufts Award. Beginning to be adopted for reading groups nervous about poetry.

Poetry. "Sex is in here. Mortality too, with all the incremental wounds to self-love and dignity that sex and mortality entail. And motherhood, square root of all the rest, is here, so stripped of every piety it steams. And spooling through this gorgeous, brassy brouhaha, the freshest poetic line that America has produced in thirty years"-Linda Gregerson. Adrian Blevins was born in Abingdon, Virginia, in 1964 and holds graduate degrees from Ho...