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OverviewFirst printing: 2,000 copies. Camille Guthrie is the Director of the Undergraduate Writing Initiatives at Bennington College. Her poems have appeared most recently in Best of American Poetry 2019 & 2020. Diamonds is Guthrie’s fourth collection of poems. Her previous book, Articulated Lair: Poems for Louise BourgeoisThe poem “During the Middle Ages” from this collection was published in Best American Poetry 2020Strong regional appeal in New England. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Camille GuthriePublisher: BOA Editions, Limited Imprint: BOA Editions, Limited ISBN: 9781950774456ISBN 10: 1950774457 Pages: 88 Publication Date: 18 November 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews"""The poems in Diamonds were written by a tiger who survived divorce, single motherdom, middle age, and sleepless nights worrying about money and what clothes to wear, one who knows it could be worse but wants her revenge, which is―surprise―the revenge of an angel who possesses such intelligence, knowledge, charm, and wit that these poems, from Bjöouml;rk to Bosch, pay us in diamonds and bless us all."" ―Mary Ruefle, Author of My Private Property and Madness, Rack, and Honey ""Camille Guthrie's Diamonds is a glorious feminist midlife scream, screed, and ode to the 'paradoxes and oxymorons' of a divorced mother's struggles. With the dark formal wit of Philip Larkin and cutting rage of Sylvia Plath, Guthrie goes there, with hilarious piss and vinegar, on the Sisyphean defeats of an academic stranded; a mother burdened; a consumerist broke; a woman who's had enough. Plundering the wisdom from Shakespeare, Keats, and Butler, along with the wisdom of online flotsam, Guthrie creates a fresh ribald collection that is all too relatable and unputdownable."" ―Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning and Engine Empire ""The poems in Diamonds were written by a tiger who survived divorce, single motherdom, middle age, and sleepless nights worrying about money and what clothes to wear, one who knows it could be worse but wants her revenge, which is―surprise―the revenge of an angel who possesses such intelligence, knowledge, charm, and wit that these poems, from Björk to Bosch, pay us in diamonds and bless us all."" ―Mary Ruefle, Author of My Private Property and Madness, Rack, and Honey ""Camille Guthrie's Diamonds is a glorious feminist midlife scream, screed, and ode to the 'paradoxes and oxymorons' of a divorced mother's struggles. With the dark formal wit of Philip Larkin and cutting rage of Sylvia Plath, Guthrie goes there, with hilarious piss and vinegar, on the Sisyphean defeats of an academic stranded; a mother burdened; a consumerist broke; a woman who's had enough. Plundering the wisdom from Shakespeare, Keats, and Butler, along with the wisdom of online flotsam, Guthrie creates a fresh ribald collection that is all too relatable and unputdownable."" ―Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning and Engine Empire" Author InformationCamille Guthrie is the author of three books of poetry: Articulated Lair: Poems for Louise Bourgeois (Subpress, 2013), In Captivity (Subpress, 2006), and The Master Thief (Subpress, 2000). Her poems have appeared in such journals as At Length, Boston Review, Green Mountains Review, The Iowa Review, The New Republic, Poem-A-Day, and Tin House, as well as in several anthologies including the Best of American Poetry 2019 & 2020 (Scribner) and Art & Artists: Poems (Everyman’s Library). Guthrie has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell and the Yaddo Foundation. She received her MFA from Brown University and her BA in English Literature from Vassar College. The Director of the Undergraduate Writing Initiatives at Bennington College, she lives in rural Vermont with her two children. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |