The Reformation by Katherine Bode-Lang (English) Paperback Book

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Winner of the 2014 APR/Honickman prize, selected and introduced by Stephen Dunn.

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Katherine Bode-Lang's fierce and lyrical poems undertake the reformation of family mythology, place, and loves that each life requires to become its own. As Stephen Dunn notes in his introduction, "One of the classic tricks of actors is when you want to get the attention of your audience, you lower, not raise, your voice. Katherine Bode-Lang's work is not a trick—her lowered voice kept attracting me."MendingI spent that summer tucked behind the library's stackswith broken books, repairing bends and tatters,erasing pencil marks, tipping in the missing pages.Old books, weak and torn books, all came to my table—covers like rags. I undressed them further: removedbattered cloth with cuts through the spine and name,down inside joints still holding flapping limbs to well-stitched pages.Once undone, I would fashion a cast—red, green, black, or blue—cut cloth and bristol board, build a new spine,fasten on the covers with a batch of glue I made that week.The dressing so fitted, I would paint pages back together, layer tissueover tears, splint the bent corners, slip waxed paperunder the eyelids of the book. In my windowless room,a ward of old books lay quiet, pinned and dryingbetween bricks and boards. My handwriting later named them,numbered and tagged them, sent them back to metal shelves.Katherine Bode-Lang earned her MFA at Penn State, where she is the assistant director of The Methodology Center. She lives in central Pennsylvania.

Author Biography

Katherine Bode-Lang: Katherine Bode-Lang was born and raised in western Michigan. Winner of the 2014 APR/Honickman Prize, she earned her MFA at Penn State University, where she is the Assistant Director of The Methodology Center, an NIH-funded research center focused on public health. She lives in central Pennsylvania.

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All-American Poem Matthew Dickman 9780977639540 14.00 APR 2008 House and Fire Maria Hummel 9780971898127 15.00 APR 2013

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Selected and introduced by Stephen Dunn The Honickman Prize is one of the country's premier publication awards for debut volumes promotional support by one of the leading poetry publications in the country, The American Poetry Review

Details ISBN0971898197 Author Stephen Dunn Short Title REFORMATION Language English ISBN-10 0971898197 ISBN-13 9780971898196 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 811.6 Series APR Honickman 1st Book Prize Year 2014 Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2014-10-23 NZ Release Date 2014-10-23 UK Release Date 2014-10-23 Imprint The American Poetry Review Pages 96 Publisher The American Poetry Review Audience General Publication Date 2014-11-20 US Release Date 2014-11-20 We've got this

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