by Alyse Bensel (Author)
Pain has a pressure, and the poems in Spoil are the diamonds that result, each sharp with the heart's longings, answered and unanswered, with the clarion terror of living in a body, especially one often at odds with one's will. Bensel's work cuts to the marrow of what it means to be human, to be betrayed by the body and by those we love. But there is hope here, too, that pain can lead to possibility, to beauty, "The seams where you tore apart, mended in rivers."--Emma Bolden, author of The Tiger and the Cage
Author Biography
ALYSE BENSEL is the author of Rare Wondrous Things: A Poetic Biography of Maria Sibylla Merian (Green Writers Press, 2020) and three chapbooks, including Lies to Tell the Body (Seven Kitchens Press, 2018). Originally born and raised in south-central Pennsylvania, she now lives in the North Carolina mountains, where she is an associate professor of English at Brevard College and directs the Looking Glass Rock Writers' Conference.
Number of Pages: 80
Dimensions: 0.3 x 9 x 5.9 IN
Publication Date: October 08, 2024
