Dogged Hearts
By Ellen Watson
2010
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Poetry. In her fifth collection of poems, Ellen Dore Watson lends her supple voice to a multiplicity of characters, each with his or her own particular dilemma, distraction, or Junie biking home to find a new mom, Edur wondering whether he's anyone's father, a pregnant teen starving herself to lose the fetus, or the widower Lew buoyed by a vision of his wife after her death. With a novelist's finesse and a poet's details, Watson creates lives that resonate with poignancy and urgency. "These intensely lyrical, very physical poems batter their way forward, embodiments of the struggle to keep emotionally alive; DOGGED HEARTS reminds us why the arts are called the because they remind us how to be human"—Tony Hoagland.
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Ellen Watson
Author · 6 books
Ellen Doré Watson is an American poet, translator and teacher.
