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Ridiculous Light
Poems
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary poetry that blends history, personal narrative, and emotional depth.
Winner of the 2018 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry A seasoned first collection of poems—personal and wry—that showcases an impressive poetic talent.
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In Ridiculous Light, Valencia Robin captures the everyday and the ecstatic in a voice all her own. Through poems that live at the intersection of history and experience, she captures the joys and tumult of being alive.
She is a storyteller of the first order, a documenter not just of memories but of how we remember.
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Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle, these are described as "praise poems for a dark time, musical poems that conjure up stories, transcendent poems to give to your mother, your lover, your friends, yourself."
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ISBN: 9780892554966
Publisher: Persea Books Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 March 2019
Country: United States
Imprint: Persea Books Inc
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 5.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 98g
Pages: 64
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About the Author
Valencia Robin is a poet and visual artist. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The St. Petersburg Review, Black Renaissance Noire, Kweli, The Cortland Review, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. She is a Cave Canem Fellow and the 2014 winner of the Hocking Hills Festival of Poetry Competition. She holds an MFA in Art & Design from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia where she currently teaches as a third-year post-MFA fellow.
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