My Wedding Dress by Heather Corbally Bryant
$18.99
Heather Bryant weaves startlingly frank observations about the end of a marriage with rich and striking images that portend the loss—a blue glass perfume bottle, a print of an apple missing a slice, a half grown son’s infant anklet bracelet from the hospital nursery, oysters in Paris after a brief reconciliation—to create an alchemy of words, rich with anger, sadness, loss, and fury.
–Lynne Spigelmire Viti, JD, PhD, Senior lecturer in the Writing Program, Wellesley College
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
Heather Bryant’s My Wedding Dress shows us a marriage ripped to shreds, as a husband’s infidelity takes the wife by surprise — takes her over, takes her under – and love is reconstrued as lie. Bryant’s visceral anatomizing offers an exemplum for such trauma, and — still more significantly — for the realization that one can survive the staining, the fraying, the rending.
–Nathalie F. Anderson, Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English Literature and Director of the Program in Creative Writing Swarthmore College
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
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My Wedding Dress
by Heather Corbally Bryant
$18.99, paper, full-length
Heather Corbally Bryant currently teaches in the Writing Program at Wellesley College; previously she taught at Penn State University and Harvard College. Her first book, How Will the Heart Endure: Elizabeth Bowen and the Landscape of War,(University of Michigan Press) won the Donald R. Murphy prize from the ACIS. She has published poems in The Christian Science Monitor and in the anthology, In Another Voice. Cheap Grace, her first chapbook, and her novel, Through Your Hands, both appeared in 2011. Her most recent publication is a second collection of poems, Lottery Ticket, published in 2013 by the Parallel Press Series of the University of Wisconsin Libraries-Madison. Thunderstorm, her second full-length volume of poetry is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
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