by Ann Killough (Author)
This brave and remarkable debut functions as one long poem and achieves extension through Stein-like repetition, and meaning through accretion and excess. In seeking a metaphorical ideal, Ann Killough's struggle to write is a struggle to understand her feelings for her nation--a process akin to a mother learning that her child is a murderer, a truth from which there can be no refuge or respite.
Author Biography
Ann Killough's work has appeared in Fence, FIELD, Poetry Ireland Review, Sentence, and elsewhere. Her chapbook Sinners in the Hands: Selections from the Catalog received the 2003 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. Killough lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, and coordinates the Brookline Poetry Series and the Mouthful Reading Series in Cambridge.