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Overview
Diane Glancy's eye and ear for the details of land and language make this poetry collection a powerful and important work about modern America. In The Relief of America, Glancy marries impressive wordplay with great emotional range, articulating the edge between two disparate cultures and the challenges of attempting to live in both. One of this country's leading wordsmiths, Glancy continually breaks new ground. The Relief of America is a major contribution to the growing body of millennial works guiding us toward the future by delving intimately into the starkest and most poetic aspects of our past.Diane Glancy is a prolific poet, essayist, playwright, and fiction writer. She is the author of the novels Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears, Monkey Secret, and Trigger Dance and of the essay collection Claiming Breath. She teaches at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Synopsis
Diane Glancy's eye and ear for the details of land and language make this poetry collection a powerful and important work about modern America. In The Relief of America, Glancy marries impressive wordplay with great emotional range, articulating the edge between two disparate cultures and the challenges of attempting to live in both. One of this country's leading wordsmiths, Glancy continually breaks new ground. The Relief of America is a major contribution to the growing body of millennial works guiding us toward the future by delving intimately into the starkest and most poetic aspects of our past.
Diane Glancy is a prolific poet, essayist, playwright, and fiction writer. She is the author of the novels Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears, Monkey Secret, and Trigger Dance and of the essay collection Claiming Breath. She teaches at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.