Much anticipated in poetry circles, this debut poetry collection by the well-known younger poet and critic rises to the occasion, at once bold and tender, experimental and clear. Jean Valentine writes: "New consciousnesses shine here in delicate, angry, ecstatic, funny, heartbroken play: the forked lightning of true poetry."
Poetry. Arielle Greenberg was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1972. She was educated at a Hebrew day school, public high school, SUNY/Purchase College and Syracuse University. Her essays and reviews on literature and art currently appear in Rain Taxi, the Electronic Poetry Review, Women's Studies and other journals. She is the grateful recipient of a Saltonstall Individual Artist's Grant and a MacDowell Colony fellowship and serves on the editorial board of How2: an Online Journal of Innovative Women's Poetics. Since 2001, she has lived just outside Boston and has taught at Bentley College. "Steel, brains, blood, and rapidest versatility, an innovative approach to one of the oldest traditions on earth--poetry--and the longing to move it forward to the speed of synapse. These are the gifts Arielle Greenberg has given us in GIVEN"--Mary Ruefle.
