Poetry. From the author of the chapbook NEST FULL OF CRIES comes the new collection BEAST OF THE HEARTH. "Martha Carlson-Bradley understands that the power of fairy tales lies not in their distance from real human life but in their proximity to it. The desires, disguises, and disappointments in these poems are our kin, our kind. By stripping the tales to the most essential - but never predictable - details, she gives mythic revision a fresh, contemporary voice" - Jeanne Marie Beaumont. "While Martha Carlson-Bradley's ...
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Poetry. From the author of the chapbook NEST FULL OF CRIES comes the new collection BEAST OF THE HEARTH. "Martha Carlson-Bradley understands that the power of fairy tales lies not in their distance from real human life but in their proximity to it. The desires, disguises, and disappointments in these poems are our kin, our kind. By stripping the tales to the most essential - but never predictable - details, she gives mythic revision a fresh, contemporary voice" - Jeanne Marie Beaumont. "While Martha Carlson-Bradley's material is volatile with submerged passion, her voice is cool and restrained, and her artistic command of language guides these poems along the arc of sexual and psychic awakening. This is a surprising and deeply satisfying collection" - Cynthia Huntington, Poet Laureate of New Hampshire.
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Very Good. Signed with inscription by author on title page. Pages clean, covers lightly bumped at corners. Letterpress, limited to 240 copies. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
