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The Boys I Borrow
Poetry. "Many of these sensitive, clever poems are about navigating the new waters of a non traditional family. The result is a cohesive, engaging collection in which a real heroine persona explores the often challenging terrain of the omicile"--Billy Collins. "When you open THE BOYS I BORROW, you won't find poems about angels or mythological heroines--what you'll find is life the way we live it, but more clearly seen and deeply understood than the average human can easily bear. The dramas in this book are the dramas of the life lived in the 21st century--we have trips to the fertility doctor, motorcycle rides to the Shangri-la Motel beneath a 'well hung, low slung' moon, stepsons whose 'tongues are simple antennae' and who play Nintendo, need help with their homework--in short, all of our wonderfully banal and beautiful world rendered in painterly precision and tender humor. This is a book that sustains"--Beth Ann Fennelly.
Book Details
- Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose
- Publish Date: Nov 1st, 2007
- Pages: 97
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.77in - 6.34in - 0.26in - 0.40lb
- EAN: 9781930974715
- Categories: • American - General
About the Author
Sellers, Heather: - Heather Sellers is an award-winning writer and professor who has taught writing workshops for the past twenty years. She is the director of the creative writing program at Hope College, and is the author of "Georgia Under Water and "Drinking Girls and Their Dresses. She lives in Holland, Michigan.
Praise for this book
"Readers that enjoy accessible poetry--poetry for a larger audience than other poets, poetry about real things (real being debatable), work akin to that of Ted Kooser, Jim Daniels, Dorianne Laux and others--will find many delights here, just as readers who are determined to interpret "accessible" as meaning too-transparent-writing may find the poems aren't to their tastes. Quieter poems don't seem to garner as much attention as award-winning work by new writers or that of "name" poets, but they should: The Boys I Borrow, if narrow in its scope, is refreshing in its willingness to pay homage to the relationships that define us. It is unabashedly poetry about something, about the accumulation of memories and belongings, of letting go and embracing love."--Karen Rigby "Galatea Resurrects" (7/31/2008 12:00:00 AM)