Broke by Kistner, Diane

Broke (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781938853906)

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Broke by Kistner, Diane

Broke

$10.95
Broke by Kistner, Diane

Broke

$10.95
Format: Paperback
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The poems in Joan Colby's chapbook BROKE were engendered by an accident in which several of the author's bones were broken. This led her to contemplate aspects of the word "broke." Due to a badly fractured wrist, the poems were laboriously printed with the non-dominant hand, which captures how the fact of brokenness, like the word itself, insinuates both damage and repair. Ironically, X rays of the tension-wire hardware used to secure Colby's shattered kneecap were eerily identical to the symbol for extinction shown on the chapbook's cover.

Author: Diane Kistner,Joan Colby
ISBN-10: 1938853903
ISBN-13: 9781938853906
Publisher: Futurecycle Press
Language: English
Published: 09/22/2015
Pages: 38
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.14lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.08d
By Diane Kistner
By Diane Kistner
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Joan Colby has published widely in journals such as Poetry, Atlanta Review, South Dakota Review, etc. Awards include two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Literature. She has published sixteen books including JOAN COLBY: SELECTED POEMS, which received the 2013 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, and RIBCAGE from Glass Lyre Press, awarded the 2015 Kithara Book Prize. Colby is now an associate editor of Kentucky Review and a senior editor with FutureCycle Press.

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