Between Looking by Virginia Barrett

$19.99

 

“Each of [her] poems is flooded with light, color and sensory detail; they are the activity of an eye intent on seeing more of everything in the range of vision . . .”
–D.A. Powell, Shelley Memorial Award winning poet

 

Virginia Barrett‘s poems pulse with sensory details that make the strange world familiar and the familiar world strange. There’s clarity sustained by nuance, so when she looks, she sees and when she listens, she hears. Leaves and flowers, painters and paintings, rain and skies expand from their rich particularities to merge as one glittering whole, a “solar system disco ball.” I’ll dance to that!

–Aaron Shurin, author of:  Involuntary Lyrics (a Publishers Weekly Best Book 2005); and Citizen (2011).

 

 

 

 

Description

Between Looking

by Virginia Barrett

$19.99, Full-length, paper

978-1-63534-914-6

2019

Virginia Barrett was born in New York City but spent most of her childhood in Vermont. She has published six collections of poetry and edited two anthologies of contemporary San Francisco poets including OCCUPY SF—poems from the movement. She has been awarded a residency grant from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of Taos, New Mexico and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A visual artist as well, her writing is often fed by line and shape, color and composition, and by the work and personal histories of artists she admires. She holds an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco and an MAT in Teaching Art from the Rhode Island School of Design.

 

 

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