Epicenter, Poems by Wendy Wisner
The
dark narrative sketched out in these graceful lyric poems immerses yet
distances the consciousness, like an impressionistic painting, slightly
blurred at the level of detail but made ever richer at the level of feeling,
of emotion. Wendy Wisner's Epicenter is a remarkably composed (in many
senses of that word) first collection of poems and establishes her as
a poet to follow.
Sample Poems by Wendy Wisner
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Wendy Wisner teaches writing at Hunter College, where she received her
MFA in poetry. She was the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize
and the 2003 Amy Award. Her poems have appeared in Runes, Sojourner,
5AM, Main Street Rag, and other journals. She lives in Brooklyn with
her husband.
"Wendy Wisner's assured first book finds at the core of family both unease
and tenderness. Her best poems possess a strange interiority that
makes them feel lit from within."-- Mark Doty
"I am thrilled and moved by Wendy Wisner’s Epicenter. I want to invent new words
to herald the emergence of this wonderful young poet. She is delicate,
but never dainty; she is exquisitely sensitive to the nuances of feeling
that constitute our inner life, but never hermetic. These poems,
one after the other, take my breath away and give breath back to me.
What a great gift this book is." – Jan Heller Levi
"It's a compelling, confiding, sometimes awe-struck voice
that speaks through these poems. A woman at moments of discovery,
surprised at what she has found. These poems are tender and unwavering,
erotic in the largest sense of the word – in love with the
world, with pennies and record players, tablecloths, and cell-phone
chargers. Lyrical, interior, grounded in the beauties and
struggles of daily life, family life, Epicenter
is a thrilling, heartbreaking first book of poems." --Donna
Masini
"Wendy Wisner's candor is startling, tender, authentic...Her tolerance for the varying ambiguities of fate--another way of saying 'courage'--greatly enrich the poet's observations." --William Pitt Root
IBSN 1932339159, 80 pages, $16.00