Description
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS Down Home
by Pamela Yenser
$14.99, paper
978-1-64662-434-8
2021
PAMELA YENSER is a creative nonfiction and poetry writer of witness. Awards include: 2020 First Place NM Press Women NF/folklore Prize for “Twilight at the Kimo Theatre,” 2020 poetry finalist at Witness Magazine for “Snow Angels,” 2019 award at W. B. Yeats Poetry Society of NY for “To Mary Shelley, Regarding Monsters,” 2019 Winner of the Ithaca Lit Difficult Fruit Poetry Prize for “Damn, Il Pleut,” 2018 Bosque Poetry Winner for “Tenants of Greece, and an Academy of American Poets Award for “New Ways Home.” After supervising libraries and international internships, editing at several presses, and teaching undergrad through graduate English, Yenser established NM Book Editors, a family business dedicated to developing and editing literary work.
Betty Moffett –
The messages and stories in Pamela Yenser’s CLOSE ENCOUNTERS DOWN HOME are memorable and haunting; the language is dazzling.
Aisley –
Each section of this book is magic.