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desire
devastating
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doubt
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erotic
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experimental writing
faith
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pedophile priests
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relationships
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suicide
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woman poet
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Product details
- ISBN 9781597098618
- Weight: 136g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Unapologetically sensual and forthright, Bell explores desire, loss, faith, doubt, tenderness, and violence; and sex as experience, metaphor, and magnifying lens for relationships.
Bright Stain may or may not become the Sex and the City of poetry, but this knock-your-socks-off debut will likely inspire debate—perhaps controversy―as it inhabits some startling points of view, including those of pedophile priests, serial killers, and prison inmates. Those who miss reading these breathtaking, visceral poems won’t know what their friends are raving about.
*FINALIST in Poetry for the Washington State Book Awards*
Francesca Bell’s poems and translations appear in many journals, including B O D Y, Massachusetts Review, New Ohio Review, North American Review, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, and Rattle. She is the former poetry editor of River Styx, the translator of a collection of poems by Palestinian poet Shatha Abu Hnaish (Dar Fadaat, 2017), and the author of the collection Bright Stain (Red Hen Press, 2019).
