I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives from the Other Side of Silence (Graywolf Press)

Kim Dana Kupperman will discuss and sign her debut autobiographical essay collection, I Just Lately Started Buying Wings, winner of the Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction (selected by Sue Halpern).

"This essay collection is preoccupied with the dead, but it also sheds light on the living. . . . Glimpses of Kupperman’s mourning can be as darkly comic as they are deeply intimate. . . . The resulting meditations can be unexpectedly lovely." --The New York Times Book Review

"On one level these 'missives' are about autobiography. But on another they are about language — prose with the rigor and beauty of verse. The darkest passages of the author’s life gleam with a paradoxical luminosity: A childhood scarred by addiction, neglect, divorce. Love affairs glimpsed at their ending. Even the stories of abused women Kupperman counseled at a shelter are meticulously polished to a belle-lettristic sheen." --The Boston Globe

Kim Dana Kupperman's work has appeared in Best American Essays and many literary journals. She is the founder of Welcome Table Press, and works as managing editor of the Gettysburg Review.

Photo of the author by Bill Dowling.

I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives from the Other Side of Silence (Paperback)

By Kim Dana Kupperman

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9781555975609
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Published: Graywolf Press, 6/2010

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A finely crafted debut, winner of the 2009 Bakeless Nonfiction Prize Kim Dana Kupperman's essays plumb the emotional and spiritual depths of a transitory life. Her episodic "missives" cover territory from the chaos of a frenetic childhood to love affairs, failed and otherwise, to the Chernobyl nuclear accident, to an ocean-crossing search for her Eastern European roots. In confident, lyrical prose, Kupperman leads the reader through a winding gallery--a collection of still lifes and portraits, landscapes of loneliness and love.

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