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by Carolyn Creedon (Author)
Winner of the 2011 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
"I'm moved by the way that Carolyn Creedon's work treats experience as sacred. She won't look away from difficult truths. She writes frankly about her own frustrations, longings, and heartbreaks, but she also recognizes the suffering of others--their secret grievances and griefs. The daily working world is here in full measure. And yet there's an oddly religious feeling that keeps breaking through this volume, which cherishes the small things, the lesser divinities, and ends with a prayer. It heartens me to welcome this fiery and fervent book, this wet collection, into the world."
--Edward Hirsch, Judge
Author Biography
Carolyn Creedon is a writer, editor, and fifteen-year veteran of the waitress wars. She completed the Ada Comstock program at Smith College, went on to earn an M.A., then to UVa where she earned an M.F.A. and was the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize. Her poems have been published in the Massachusetts Review, Best New Poets, Best of the Best American Poets, Ploughshares, Yale Review, Rattle, American Poetry Review, and other journals. In 2010 she won the Alehouse Happy Hour Poetry Prize. She lives in Charlottesville with her husband and her dog.
