Corey Van Landingham is a Wallace Stegner Poetry Fellow at Stanford University. She grew up in Oregon and holds degrees from Lewis & Clark College and Purdue University, where she was a Poetry Editor for Sycamore Review. She is the recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Award and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2012, Indiana Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere.
"Already I feel changed by Antidote--this heady, haunting new
collection with its strange and seductive proposals. Corey Van
Landingham takes us on an endlessly inventive, exhilarating journey
that transports us past conventional perception and language, past
'the airspace for all the monologues worth flying from.' These
poems hold us close and throw us far, plunging and soaring without
turning away from the disasters at their hearts. This is the real
thing: unflinching, urgent, luminous work. I will turn to it again
and again." --Mary Szybist
"Corey Van Landingham begins Antidote in thoughtful, measured
denial---not, can't, nor, never mind, a place of soul and heart
where you only 'think crossing over a body of water equals
acquiring the other side.' Nevertheless, so much goes on to live in
this fine book: litany, rage, grief, love, certain moments of
startling ventriloquism then back to the real self restless, said
to meant, hunting maps to hymnals, hawks and gulls and fevers, even
'the dirt's push & pulse' all overriding that first impossible no.
'People die when I'm not looking, ' this poet tells us. Good thing
she looks." --Marianne Boruch
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