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What Dante did with Loss

by (author) Jan Conn

Publisher
Vehicule Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1998
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550650525
    Publish Date
    Jan 1998
    List Price
    $9.95

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Description

What Dante Did With Loss is Jan Conn's fourth book of poems. Central to this powerful new collection is a suite of poems charting the explosive emotions surrounding her mother's suicide. Other poems range from meditations on South American flora and fauna to postmodern encounters with immortality.

About the author

Jan Conn was brought up in Asbestos, Quebec. She now lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and is a professor of Biomedical Sciences whose research is focused on the genetics and ecology of mosquitoes. She has published seven previous books of poetry, most recently Botero’s Beautiful Horses (2009). Whisk, with Yoko’s Dogs, is forthcoming 2013 from Pedlar Press. Please visit yokosdogs.com

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