Instructions for the Lovers by Dawn Lundy Martin

Instructions for the Lovers

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Instructions for the Lovers by Dawn Lundy Martin

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Instructions for the Lovers

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FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN POETRY

A taut, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life.

"Dawn Lundy Martin's poems read like a real-time excavation of what poetry can and can't do," writes Maggie Nelson. In Instructions for The Lovers, her most stripped down, direct work to date, Martin creates a poetic field dense with thought, image, and sound as she reflects on her relationship with her mother, experiences of queer polyamory, lesbian sex, and the racist conditions within the dying American university system. With rigorously embodied vulnerability and virtuosity, Martin constructs moments of pleasure, humor, and sexiness woven with grief--a tender body to live in.
Book Details
Publisher:
Nightboat Books
ISBN:
9781643622316
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Authors:
Dawn Lundy Martin
Published Date:
2024-06-25
Language:
English
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About Dawn Lundy Martin

Dawn Lundy Martin won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in 2019 for Good Stock Strange Blood. The Lambda Literary Award for lesbian poetry went to Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life in 2016. Her first book, A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering, took the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Carl Phillips; Discipline won the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize, chosen by Fanny Howe. Instructions for the Lovers followed in 2024. She is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College, having held the inaugural Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair at the University of Pittsburgh, where she co-founded the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.

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