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Tilt / Beautiful People

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Tilt / Beautiful People brings to life two innovative poetry books integrated into one.

In Tilt, Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton (1947-2023) write through climate change, Maureen's illness, and the pandemic with their signature wit and poignancy. Their feminist curiosity leads them to poems about gender identity, marriage equality, and the complexities of national politics. Assembled shortly before Maureen's death, the poems in Tilt tell the story of a friendship rooted in collaborative artistic play. The title of the book gives a nod to the earth's tilt, which gives us seasons, but also hints that the poems were written at full tilt, these poets hyperaware they only had so much time left to write with one another.

Beautiful People was written back and forth over the course of several months by poets Maureen Seaton and Aaron Smith. Bold and inventive, it moves from sonnets and sestinas to prose poems and so much more. While its center is a love for poetry and art and laughter, the poets also grapple with mortality, sadness, and what it means to be alive on a broken but beautiful planet. Through their literary friendship, they put a mirror to all our lovely faces.

Book Details

Publisher:
Bridwell Press
ISBN:
9781957946214
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
212
Authors:
Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton, Aaron Smith
Published Date:
2025-08-25
Language:
English

About Denise Duhamel

Denise Duhamel, born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, is the author of numerous collections, including Second Story (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), Scald (Pittsburgh, 2017), Blowout (Pittsburgh, 2013), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Ka-Ching! (Pittsburgh, 2009), and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001). She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014 and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a professor in the MFA program at Florida International University.

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