Horse Dance Underwater: Poems

by Helena Mesa

Overview

Poetry. "'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in the air. Mesa's poems are artfully suspended between lyric and narrative, between humans and animals, between Latin America and the U.S., between desire and the difficulty of its fulfillment. HORSE DANCE UNDERWATER is an inventive, musical, and powerful debut"--Mark Doty.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781880834824
Publisher:	Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Publication date:	03/01/2009
Series:	Imagination #13
Edition description:	CLEVELAND STATE UNIV. POETRY CENTER
Pages:	65
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Helena Mesa was born and raised in Pittsburgh to Cuban parents. She holds an M.F.A. from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. from the University of Houston. Her poems have appeared in such journals, as Barrow Street, Bat City Review, Indiana Review, Poet Lore, and Third Coast. She is currently co-editing a collection of essays, Mentor & Muse: From Poets to Poets. She lives in Ann Arbor and is an assistant professor of English at Albion College.