The Bridge

by Mary Austin Speaker

Overview

"Transit becomes an act of transcendence in Mary Austin Speaker's The Bridge. I love how each section of the book ends almost where it begins, how the world comes as it goes, flash after flash - and just when things begin to blur we "awake to astonishing / geometry," to an awareness that "ascent is only a way / toward another opening." The Bridge limns with unmatched grace the internal and external process of daily passage." -Joseph Massey

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848614673
Publisher:	Shearsman Books
Publication date:	01/15/2016
Pages:	108
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Mary Austin Speaker is a poet and book designer. The author of CEREMONY, which was selected by Matthea Harvey as winner of the 2013 Slope Editions poetry prize, and THE BRIDGE (Shearsman Books, 2016), she has also published four chapbooks, including 20 Love Poems for 10 Months (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012), and a collaborative play, I Am You This Morning You Are Me Tonight, written with her husband, the poet Chris Martin. She lives in Minneapolis, where she co-edits Society, a publication project about poetry and power. and book designer in Iowa City, IA.