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Poets Diving in the Night

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Poets Diving in the Night leaps into the "undiscovered country" below surfaces. It is an encomium to poets and writers coming before, suggesting their bravery in diving into incoherence in order to discover meaning, welcoming new seekers along the way. It makes no apology for the difficult or unfamiliar in this philosophical terrain of loss, mystery, myth, and confusion. Poets Diving in the Night is a collection of poems that, paradoxically, explores absence and what lies below language, through language. The poet's persona takes readers with her, pushing past boundaries, leaving visible traces. Water as reflective surface--also flowing and generative--connects the poems in this collection in the way a river runs through our landscapes. We may not recognize the "water-worn features" at first glance, but return to swim with the "luminous kite." Images of absence also connect us even when we lose our way, "until remembering our beginning." Poets Diving is a collection about memory and aphasia, legend and heroism, the lost, but inviolable, voices of Marie Colvin, the author's brother, and our collective past through poetry.

Author Biography:

Poet, writer, and educator Nancy Avery Dafoe has published books on teaching writing: Breaking Open the Box and Writing Creatively: A Guided Journal through Rowman & Littlefield Education in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Her latest book on education, The Misdirection of Education Policy: Raising Questions about School Reform, was released from publisher Rowman & Littlefield in June 2016. Her cross-genre memoir and poetry book, An Iceberg in Paradise: A Passage through Alzheimer's, was published by SUNY Press in 2015. Dafoe's poems, essays, and stories have appeared in numerous literary publications and won awards locally and nationally. Her fiction work also appears in the anthology Lost Orchard, published by SUNY Press in 2014. She won the William Faulkner/William Wisdom poetry prize in 2016. After working in high school as an AP English Literature and Composition, journalism, and college prep English teacher, as well as in a community college as an adjunct instructor, Dafoe retired from full-time teaching to write and do consulting work through Dafoe Writing & Consulting. A member of the Central New York Branch of the National League of American Pen Women (NLAPW), she currently offers writing courses and editorial services through her website www.dafoewritingandconsulting.com. She lives in Homer, New York with her husband Daniel and son Blaise. She has two daughters, Colette and Nicole, and three grandsons, Truman, Owen, and Enzo.
Release date Australia
January 20th, 2017
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Pages
44
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Dimensions
140x216x3
ISBN-13
9781635341041
Product ID
26597983

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