Selected Poems

By Dara Wier

2009

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4.45

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206

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Praise for Dara Wier’s previous "Wier's poems explode with variety, particularity, whirlwinds of detail and mystery . . . memoirs, dialogues, choral performances witnessing scenes both weird and familiar."— Rain Taxi "Dara Wier's Reverse Rapture is a mosaic whose colossal proportions contradict the mundane character of its countless self-contained tesserae. It may not be for the faint of heart—most intense experiences aren't—but those who stay with it will find themselves face to face with a world whose eerily sharp focus suggests recent satellite photographs of Mars. And they will never be the same again."—John Ashbery Spanning 1977 to 2006, Selected Poems is a major retrospective that will stand as an indispensable record of turn-of-the-millennium poetry. The progression of Dara Wier’s poetry over the last thirty years mirrors—and simultaneously transcends—the evolution of American poetry, from the lyric poems of the Deep South to the complex intensity of poems in more recent volumes such as Remnants of Hannah and Reverse Rapture . Selected Poems confirms Dara Wier as one of contemporary poetry's most important and insistent voices. Dara Wier is the author of ten collections of poetry, most recently Remnants of Hannah (Wave Books, 2006) and Reverse Rapture (Verse Press, 2005). She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including those from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, and she has taught at numerous universities and conferences throughout the country. Wier is on the permanent faculty of the University of Massachusetts Program for Poets & Writers.

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Dara Wier

Author · 10 books

Dara Wier's books include You Good Thing (Wave Books 2013), Selected Poems (Wave Books 2011), Remnants of Hannah (Wave Books 2006), Hat On a Pond (Verse Press 2002), and Voyages in English (Carnegie Mellon 2001). Reverse Rapture (Verse Press 2005), a book length poem in nine-line stanzas in nine-stanza pieces, was selected by Stephen Rodefer for the 2006 Poetry Center Book Award from The American Poetry Archives. Among her works are the limited editions A Civilian's Journal of the War Years (Song Cave), (X In Fix) in Rain Taxi's Brainstorm Series, Fly on the Wall (Oat City Press), and The Lost Epic, co-written with James Tate (Waiting for Godot Books in 1999). Her work has been supported by fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the American Poetry Review. In 2005 she was the Rubin Distinguished Chairholder at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. Her work has appears in American Letters & Commentary, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Conduit, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Fou, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, jubilat, Maggy, Make, Matter, New American Writing, slope, Volt, Norton's Hybrid Poetry, Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize Anthology and elsewhere. She directs the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and co-directs the University of Massachusetts' Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action and The Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Her editing work includes publishing limited edition chapbooks and broadsides with Factory Hollow Press, a part of Flying Object, an arts non-profit in Hadley, Massachusetts. Audio, interviews, and reviews can be found in a website section about Wier's work at Wave Books. Read "A Stick, A Cup, A Bowl, A Comb," in Poetry Daily, "Peach Farm," in Jubilat, and more poems on poetserv.org.. Her monthly column, Inside Undivided, about chance, fate, intention & context is at Flying Object's site. For more information on this author, go to: http://www.wavepoetry.com/authors/47-...