Spectra

by Ashley Toliver

Overview

Generous, penetrating, relentlessly sonic poems that record the creative potential of the body and the boundaries of the self.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781566895262
Publisher:	Coffee House Press
Publication date:	09/18/2018
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Ashley Toliver is the author of the chapbook Ideal Machine. Her work has been supported by fellowships from Oregon Literary Arts, Cave Canem, and the Academy of American Poets. She received her MFA from Brown Universityin 2013.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Spectra

Finalist for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Finalist for the 2020 Oregon Book Awards

Finalist for the 2019 Believer Book Award in Poetry

“Testing the bounds of relationships and identity, Toliver displays her linguistic gifts in poems that resist egotism and startle with their intimacy.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

"A powerful first book . . . a worthwhile collection.” —Massachusetts Review

“This book embodies the tenderness with which we can, inside and above our own vulnerabilities and flaws, choose to observe our inevitable corporeal selves.” —Tarpaulin Sky

“Ashley Toliver’s collection pushes at the elastic boundaries of the self, the domestic and natural worlds, revealing a porousness that could serve us well as an ethic rooted in connection.” —Little Infinite

“Like hands running over a strange surface in a dark room, the language of Ashley Toliver’s mesmerizing debut collection. . . . While reading Spectra I was reminded that feeling one’s way through the unknown can itself become a kind of unparalleled knowing.” —Claudia Rankine

“Reading Spectra makes me feel like Toliver has stitched a new constellation into my mind; she has written that much dark, that much light.” —Heather Christle, author of Heliopause

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