An Ark of Sorts

by Celia Gilbert

Overview

This delicately shaped series of poems chronicles a mother's days of grief following the death of a child. The poems fathom her inner dialogue as she tries both to comfort her family, and to escape from the reality of tragedy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781949944013
Publisher:	Alice James Books
Publication date:	06/04/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Celia Gilbert has published three books of poetry: AN ARK OF SORTS, winner of the first Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award; BONFIRE; and Queen of Darkness, a bilingual collection of her poetry forthcoming in Poland. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry, Southwest Review, Field, and the New Yorker, among other places, and her work has been frequently anthologized. She is the winner of a Discovery Award and a Pushcart Prize. The Poetry Society of America awarded her an Emily Dickinson Prize and a Consuelo Ford Award. She worked as Poetry and Fiction Editor and feature writer for the Boston Phoenix and helped edit Women/Poems. A printmaker and painter as well as a poet, Gilbert grew up in Washington, D.C. After living abroad in England and France, she now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

What People are Saying About This

Ruth Stone

...this map of grief in the spare language of true poetry is an illumination of all sorrow.