A01=Callie Siskel
Author_Callie Siskel
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contemporary poet
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grief
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women poet
Product details
- ISBN 9781324116905
- Weight: 118g
- Dimensions: 142 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 09 Dec 2025
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Does loss define us or do we define loss? Tracing the duality of grief as it reverberates through a family, Callie Siskel wrestles with questions of identity and inheritance in precise, lucid poetry. Two Minds indulges and therefore exposes the vanity of turning private pain into art and the pursuit of self-revelation. Drawing on ekphrasis, ars poetica and the prose poem, Siskel expands the elegiac genre as she oscillates between childhood and adulthood, art and mythology as well as the natural and domestic world. At once cerebral and emotional, Two Minds is an essential meditation on the ways that loss cleaves and doubles our perceptive power.
Callie Siskel is the author of Arctic Revival, winner of the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her poems appear in the Atlantic, Kenyon Review, Yale Review, and Paris Review. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she holds a PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.
