~ Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room
WINNER of the Foreword Book of the Year Prize in Poetry
Finalist for the Washington State Book Awards
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Finalist for the Washington State Book Awards
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Order a signed copy from PayPal here
Order from Amazon.com
Order from White Pine Press
Order from your local independent bookstore here
Info about the Book:
In her second collection of poems, award-winning poet Kelli Russell Agodon creates a delicate balance between the seriousness of life and a brilliant sense of playfulness. A book about anxiety, spirituality, and the various ways we correspond including letters, postcards, love notes, conversation, song, and prayer.
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“These are poems of remarkable liveliness. In their wide-ranging wit and passion for language, their surprising juxtapositions of the ordinary and the exalted, and their willingness to foreground doubt in a search for meaning, they show a fellowship with the work of Dickinson that is deep without ever being solemn. Here is a fresh, distinctive voice that is consistently engaging and surprising.”
—Carl Dennis
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In Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, a most unexpected feat of poetic legerdemain, Kelli Russell Agodon composes on the high-wire of misprision and semantic accidents. She is an aerialist hovering above language without a net, and is possibly the wittiest anagramist in recent memory (pray for poets becomes the story of paper). All I can say is: reader, go with hershopping for coffins. Go with her as she nails light to paper. The rewards are many.
—Carolyn Forché
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“These are poems of remarkable liveliness. In their wide-ranging wit and passion for language, their surprising juxtapositions of the ordinary and the exalted, and their willingness to foreground doubt in a search for meaning, they show a fellowship with the work of Dickinson that is deep without ever being solemn. Here is a fresh, distinctive voice that is consistently engaging and surprising.”
—Carl Dennis
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In Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, a most unexpected feat of poetic legerdemain, Kelli Russell Agodon composes on the high-wire of misprision and semantic accidents. She is an aerialist hovering above language without a net, and is possibly the wittiest anagramist in recent memory (pray for poets becomes the story of paper). All I can say is: reader, go with hershopping for coffins. Go with her as she nails light to paper. The rewards are many.
—Carolyn Forché