So Late, So Soon: New and Selected Poems by Moldaw (Etruscan Press); Masque by Byrne (Tupelo Press)

UPDATE: Elena Karina Byrne will not be able to attend due to a family emergency. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Poets Carol Moldaw and Elena Karina Byrne will read and sign their recent poetry collections.

Carol Moldaw’s most recent book, So Late, So Soon: New and Selected Poems was published in the spring of 2010 by Etruscan Press. She is the author of four other books of poetry, The Lightning Field, which won the 2002 FIELD Poetry Prize, Through the Window, Chalkmarks on Stone, and Taken from the River, as well as a novel, The Widening. Her work is published widely in journals, including AGNI, Antioch Review, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, FIELD, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Parnassus, Threepenny Review, and Triquarterly. It has also been anthologized in many venues, including Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry, and Under 35: A New Generation of American Poets. A recipient of a Lannan Foundation Marfa Writer’s Residency, an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize, Moldaw lives outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico with her husband and daughter. In the spring of 2011 she will be the Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University.

Former 12-year Regional Director of the Poetry Society of America, Elena Karina Byrne is a freelance teacher, editor, collage artist, Poetry Consultant/Moderator for The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, a reviewer for ForeWord's Clarion Reviews and Literary Programs Director for The Ruskin Art Club. Forthcoming in Now Culture, Blackbird, Chaparral, Drunken Boat, and The Kenyon Review, her publications include 2009 Pushcart Prize XXXIII Best of the Small Presses, Best American Poetry 2005, The Yale Review, The Paris Review, APR, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, The Journal, Ploughshares, Agni, TriQuarterly, Denver Quarterly, Verse and Volt. Books include The Flammable Bird (Zoo Press/Tupelo Press 2002), MASQUE (Tupelo Press, 2008) and the forthcoming  Burnt Violin (poetry, 2011); works in progress include Voyeur Hour (poetry chapbook) and Beautiful Insignificance (essays).

So Late, So Soon: New and Selected Poems (Paperback)

By Carol Moldaw

$18.95

ISBN-13: 9780981968728
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Etruscan Press, 6/2010

"Here are poems of intelligent consideration and a deft and heart-born music, filled with the gleam of particularity and a lushness of language and substance."--Jane Hirshfield

Out of acutely observed, deeply felt particulars, Carol Moldaw constructs poetry of imaginative daring that illuminates and transforms the life within us all. In "So Late, So Soon," "oblique, wily, and intensely intelligent poems" repeatedly achieve, to quote from "The New Yorker," "lyric junctures of shivering beauty." Aurally rich, structurally varied, inventive, and sensually textured, these are poems at once passionate and analytical, descriptive and meditative, lyrical and complex--poems that keep one eye on the moon while leveling their gaze at the self and its immediate world.

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