Description
Winner of the 1991 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. The poems in this book deal with life in a Pennsylvania Mennonite community and the tensions and conflicts that exist for the speaker as she tries to be true to two worlds, the other being New York City.
Author: Julia Spicher Kasdorf
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 11/19/1992
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9780822954804
ISBN10: 082295480X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
Author: Julia Spicher Kasdorf
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 11/19/1992
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9780822954804
ISBN10: 082295480X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
About the Author
Julia Spicher Kasdorf is associate professor of English and women's studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of two other poetry collections: Eve's Striptease and Poetry in America. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Review, and Poetry, as well as numerous anthologies, including the 2003 Pushcart collection. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Kasdorf is also the author of The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life and Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American.