Results for "de la O, Marsha"

Written during the last five years of the poet’s father’s life, Creature is a book about love, destruction, and the self, all standing in relation to family and the natural world. The poems themselves try to move toward what can’t be said by finding connection with other life forms: hawks, hummingbi... Read More about Creature: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

"Every Ravening Thing is the most exciting book I’ve read in a very long time." —Chase Twichell... Read More about Every Ravening Thing: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

“Whether her subject is mental illness, the oppression of one human being by another, or the constantly-cast shadow of our mortality, Marsha de la O’s resilient, unpretentious, sharply intelligent and unsentimental voice speaks to us of what we need to know. This is a disturbing and memorable book.”... Read More about Black Hope

“Whether her subject is mental illness, the oppression of one human being by another, or the constantly-cast shadow of our mortality, Marsha de la O’s resilient, unpretentious, sharply intelligent and unsentimental voice speaks to us of what we need to know. This is a disturbing and memorable book.”... Read More about Black Hope