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Ronald Wallace, Series Editor
March 2012
LC: 2011041963 PS
72 pp. 6 x 9
Paper $16.95 t
ISBN 978-0-299-28684-2
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Poetry
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
• SPRING 2012 •
Winner of the 2012 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, selected by
Jean Valentine
In the aftermath of her mother’s suicide, one young woman recognizes
the malleability of her reality. From her adolescence in the flat, hot
Floridian landscape to a tectonic Missouri adulthood, a girl shaped by
grief is compelled to create and manipulate her image of the world. As
her dreams become indistinguishable from daily life, she begins to
question memory, identity, and the function of love.
Employing photography as its central metaphor,
Darkroom
tackles the tangled relationship between memory and mourning by
exploring an artist’s impossible attempt to re-create the object of loss.
We mangled our subjects after the shot—
technique hushing the grain. The body had its hunger
and its words, the
agitations
and
stop baths
,
the vinegar and burn
and fingernails blacked. Our brutal selves reeling
the strips onto spools. The world made new,
and blooming, and dumb.
—excerpt from “Darkroom”
© The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.
studied at Washington
University in St. Louis and the University of
Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns/
Poe-Faulkner Fellow in poetry. She has served as
the editor of
Meridian
and series editor for the
Best New Poets
anthology. She lives in St. Louis,
Missouri.
“This poet takes risks: not easy, her originality
and gives life. In Danziger’s flying
language and deep intelligence, here are grief
not formalized, joy not smoothed out.”
—Jean Valentine, Brittingham Prize judge and
National Book Award Winner
Of related interest
Winner of the 2011 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, selected by Cornelius Eady
Someone is always watching––from the warehouse, from the woods. And on the outskirts of
town, someone new is waiting. Part fairy tale, part gothic ballad,
Wait
chronicles in poems the
year before a young girl’s marriage.
Published March 2011
LC: 2010038897 PS 88 pp. 6 x 9
ISBN 978-0-299-28314-8 Paper $14.95 t ISBN 978-0-299-28314-8 e-book $9.99 t
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