Public Abstract by Huffman, Jane

Public Abstract (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798987585207)

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Public Abstract by Huffman, Jane

Public Abstract

$25.00
Public Abstract by Huffman, Jane

Public Abstract

$25.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
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Winner of the 2023 APR/Honickman First Book Prize and selected by judge Dana Levin, Public Abstract is an intricate debut that examines illness and recovery, addiction and loss. Winner of the 2023 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Jane Huffman's intricate debut collection, Public Abstract, examines illness and recovery, loss and addiction: the ripples of influence an addict has on their family circle, and vice versa. We watch as a private mind, devoted to its privacy, is laid out on the page and abstracted to become a public revelation. Building an aesthetic of compressed interiority, the speaker's tension is clear--"From one lung, I tell the truth. / From the other lung, I lie." Through intimate and meticulous poems, Public Abstract explores the operations of form, sewn together, and the failings of form, ripped apart. Crumbling under its own weight and folderol, form becomes an act of invention and in Huffman's expert hands, revision becomes a genre.

Author: Jane Huffman
ISBN-10: 8987585204
ISBN-13: 9798987585207
Publisher: American Poetry Review
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2023
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.50w x 1.50d
By Jane Huffman
By Jane Huffman
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About the Author

Jane Huffman is a poet from Michigan. She received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is currently a doctoral student at the University of Denver. A recipient of the 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, Huffman is founder and editor-in-chief of Guesthouse, an online literary journal.

About the Judge

Dana Levin's newest book of poetry Now Do You Know Where You Are (Copper Canyon Press 2022) was named one of the "Best Books of 2022" by NPR and was included on the New York Times "100 Notable Books of 2022" list. Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was chosen by Louise Gl?k for the 1999 APR/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive numerous honors, including the 2003 PEN/Osterweil Award. Copper Canyon Press brought out her second book, Wedding Day, in 2005, and in 2011 Sky Burial, which The New Yorker called "utterly her own and utterly riveting."

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