ANDREA COHEN is the director of The Writers House at Merrimack College and the director of The Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, MA. She received an MFA from the University of Iowa. Her awards include a PEN Discovery Award and Glimmer Train's Short Fiction Award.
." . . Reading these poems, one feels a little afraid to breathe,
that to shift a comma or change a line break would be to blow down
the cathedral that's been built out of grains of sand. This is
craft, but it's also infused with mystical moments, sacred
intuitions. Delicate and difficult, these are some of the most
memorable poems I've ever read. Period."--Laura Kasischke (1/1/2014
12:00:00 AM)
"[Cohen's] wily ways with the mother tongue are equal to every
curve the world throws, showing over and over how the soul of
wordcraft can run rings around 'the central O / of loss and going
on.'"--David Barber (1/1/2014 12:00:00 AM)
. . . Reading these poems, one feels a little afraid to breathe,
that to shift a comma or change a line break would be to blow down
the cathedral that s been built out of grains of sand. This is
craft, but it's also infused with mystical moments, sacred
intuitions. Delicate and difficult, these are some of the most
memorable poems I ve ever read. Period. Laura Kasischke"
[Cohen s] wily ways with the mother tongue are equal to every curve
the world throws, showing over and over how the soul of wordcraft
can run rings around the central O / of loss and going on. David
Barber"
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