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Somatic, by Ann Keniston

Praise for Somatic
Sorrowing, searching, and uncompromising as she lifts the fabric of language to come closer to what language resists, Ann Keniston in Somatic unravels meaning, examining issues of dominance and shame and what it means to be “torn and then / remade.” Keniston builds upon and inhabits historical materials regarding the condition formerly known as hysteria, working with a heightened sense of the precarious, peculiar language of the body. Here the experience of absence creates the vivid sensation of presence, and the ode transforms into the elegy and the elegy into the ode. These are startling, beautiful poems, palpable with intelligence and the long reach of their author’s compassion.   —Lee Upton
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Ann Keniston is the author of two earlier poetry collections, The Caution of Human Gestures (David Robert Books, 2005), and a chapbook, November Wasps: Elegies (Finishing Line, 2013). She is also the coeditor of The New American Poetry of Engagement: A 21st Century Anthology (McFarland, 2012). A recipient of fellowships and grants in poetry from the Nevada Arts Council, Sierra Arts (Reno), and the Somerville (MA) Arts Council, she has held residencies at the CAMAC Arts Center (France), the Ucross Foundation, the Ragdale Foundation, the Blue Mountain Center, and elsewhere. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including the Yale Review, Gettysburg Review, Water-Stone, and Literary Imagination. A frequent teacher of poetry in K-12 classes, she has also taught poetry and publishing workshops in the community. She is a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she teaches poetry workshops and literature.

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  • Forthcoming
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      • NEW—Kiyoko Reidy
      • NEW—Jin Cordaro
      • NEW—Annette Sisson
      • NEW—Timothy Geiger
      • NEW—Jacqueline Berger
      • NEW—Hayden Saunier
      • NEW—J.L. Conrad
      • Tom C. Hunley
      • Heather Swan
      • Saba Husain
      • Helena Mesa
      • Kathy Nelson
      • Andrea Hollander
      • The Animals of My Earth School, by Mildred Barya
      • Flatback Sally Country, by Rachel Custer
      • This Strange Garment, by Nicole Callihan
      • Paradise Is Jagged, by Ann Fisher-Wirth
      • The Mayapple Forest, by Kim Ports Parsons
      • Leave Me a Little Want, by Beverly Burch
      • Notes from the Column of Memory, by Wendy Drexler
      • The Night Divers, by Melanie McCabe
      • light waves, by Kirsten Shu-ying Chen
      • Horse Not Zebra, by Eric Nelson
      • Design, by Theresa Burns
      • House Bird, by Robb Fillman
      • Years Beyond the River, by David Axelrod
      • The Poet & The Architect, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
      • Wind Apples, by Jeff Ewing
      • The Feast Delayed, by Diane LeBlanc
      • These Few Seeds, by Meghan Sterling
      • The Curator's Notes, by Robin Rosen Chang
      • A Cartography of Home, by Hayden Saunier
      • Tell Me How You Got Here, by Emily Franklin
      • Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars, by Patricia Clark
      • Ghost Dogs, by Dion O'Reilly
      • A Kinship with Ash, by Heather Swan
      • Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound, by Yvonne Zipter
      • Somatic, by Ann Keniston
      • The Honey of Earth, by David Graham
      • Sugar Fix, by Kory Wells
      • The Davids Inside David, by Sarah Wetzel
      • The Bones of Winter Birds, by Ann Fisher-Wirth
      • Strange What Rises, by Gary Whitehead
      • Suspension, by Paige Riehl
      • The Northway, by Lisa Bellamy
      • The Infinite Doctrine of Water, by Michael T. Young
      • Aileron, by Geraldine Connolly
      • No Such Thing As Distance, by Karen Paul Holmes
      • Leaves Surface Like Skin, by Michelle Menting
      • How to Wear This Body, by Hayden Saunier
      • Travel Notes from the River Styx, by Susanna Lang
      • Route 66 and Its Sorrows, by Carolyn Miller
      • Bluewords Greening, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
      • The Canopy, by Patricia Clark
      • Cutting Room, by Jessica de Koninck
      • The Persistence of Longing, by Lynne Knight
      • Confessions of a Captured Angel, by Neil Carpathios
    • Craft Books >
      • The Strategic Poet
      • The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics
      • The Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop
      • The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop
    • Anthologies >
      • What the House Knows
      • A Constellation of Kisses
      • The Book of Donuts, edited by Jason Lee Brown and Shanie Latham
      • The Doll Collection
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