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Author: Lori Jakiela
Publisher: Autumn House Press
Imprint: Autumn House Press
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 17.40cm
Weight: 0.268kg
ISBN: 9781938769429
ISBN 10: 1938769422
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 31 October 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Throughout, her love of language remains uniquely her own, enabling her to weave a beautifully-crafted tapestry of image and insight that ultimately enables her to string together a fragmented self. --Nancy McCabe Ploughshares Uniquely beautiful, wrenchingly sad, truly funny and honest... the book reads like a dream. It's rare to find literary writing that is so accessible, so interested in engaging the reader. --Shannon Reed The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Throughout, her love of language remains uniquely her own, enabling her to weave a beautifully-crafted tapestry of image and insight that ultimately enables her to string together a fragmented self. --Nancy McCabe Ploughshares Uniquely beautiful, wrenchingly sad, truly funny and honest... the book reads like a dream. It's rare to find literary writing that is so accessible, so interested in engaging the reader. --Shannon Reed The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Uniquely beautiful, wrenchingly sad, truly funny and honest... the book reads like a dream. It's rare to find literary writing that is so accessible, so interested in engaging the reader. --Shannon Reed The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Throughout, her love of language remains uniquely her own, enabling her to weave a beautifully-crafted tapestry of image and insight that ultimately enables her to string together a fragmented self. --Nancy McCabe Ploughshares
"""Throughout, her love of language remains uniquely her own, enabling her to weave a beautifully-crafted tapestry of image and insight that ultimately enables her to string together a fragmented self.""--Nancy McCabe ""Ploughshares"" ""Uniquely beautiful, wrenchingly sad, truly funny and honest... the book reads like a dream. It's rare to find literary writing that is so accessible, so interested in engaging the reader.""--Shannon Reed ""The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"""
Author Information
Lori Jakiela is the author of the memoirBelief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe, which received the 2016 William Saroyan Prize for International Literature from Stanford University, was a finalist for the Council of Literary Magazine and Small Presses Firecracker Award and the Housatonic Literary Award, and named one of 20 Not-to-Miss Books of Nonfiction of 2015 by The Huffington Post. Jakiela is the author of an essay collection, Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker (Bottom Dog Press), as well as two other memoirs-Miss New York Has Everything(Hatchette) andThe Bridge to Take When Things Get Serious(C&R Press). She is also the author of the poetry collectionSpot the Terrorist(Turning Point) and several limited-edition poetry chapbooks. Her latest poetry chapbook,Big Fish, was published by Stranded Oak Press in 2016. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Rumpus, Brevity, and more.
