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The Stone in My Shoe gathers Lucy Logsdon's fierce, unflinching poems of girlhood, recovery, divorce, desire, and defiance-each one a spark struck against the cages of authority, trust, and expectation. Visceral, darkly alive, and charged with hard-won freedom, these poems invite readers into the exhilarating cost of becoming wholly, dangerously oneself.

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""I am myself, but a new construction,"" Lucy Logsdon writes in this deep, forthright, and firmly constructed book of changes, of loss and self-definition, of grief and resurgence. The Stone in My Shoe is a courageous, high-stake, unflinching book of salvations. Edward Hirsch, author of Gabriel: A Poem and The Heart of American Poetry Lucy Logsdon's ferociously introspective poems sear us as we read The Stone in My Shoe-leaving nothing unscathed. This writer lets rip with a gasoline candidness on topics from a love letter to her surgeon to her choice, no, desire for corporal punishment in school in The Bad Girl. These poems shock us with their honesty and surprise us with their unexpected involutions of choice that chops off our expectation, leaving us to hold like a severed limb the uncanniness of where she has taken us, inside her pain, clutching tight our tourniquets. Kurt Lovelace author of Halfway Between Everywhere

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Logsdon's poetry is often inspired by experiences she has had growing up in Southern Illinois, as well as her life as a whole. ""My work draws to some extension my rural experiences, particularly the isolation, which always makes the rest of the world seem so odd to me,"" Logsdon said. ""These poems also draw, often, on my experiences as a woman grappling with the modern world. I sometimes use personas to speak the ideas of my poems."" Lucy received a MacDowell Fellowship and has taught at The Frost Place. She received her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University.

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