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american detritus
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experimental
historical
inner city culture
low-income
memory
montage
new york city
nostalgic
past
personal experience
perspective
poetry
post-9/11
post-911
private selves
prose
public lives
rural
southern Indiana
trendy
woman author
Product details
- ISBN 9781566891431
- Weight: 283g
- Dimensions: 177 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 17 Apr 2003
- Publisher: Coffee House Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Brenda Coultas’s prose poems take us on a well-documented tour from the Bowery, pre-1900 and post-9/11, to southern Indiana, pre-automobile and post-genetic engineering. Her poems are sculptures pieced together from bits of memory and a montage of American detritus. This cinematic and wildly original collection asks the big questions as it documents our private selves, playing out our lives in public.
Before becoming a poet, Brenda Coultas was a farmer, a carny, a taffy maker, a park ranger, a waitress in a disco ballroom, and the second woman welder in Firestone Steel’s history. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including Conjunctions, Epoch, Fence, and Open City. She lives one block from the Bowery in New York City.
Brenda Coultas is the author of A Handmade Museum, winner of the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. An Indiana native, she has lived in New York for ten years and teaches at Touro College. Coultas has also served as series curator at the Poetry Project and taught at Naropa University's Summer Writing Program.
