FRANCES RICHARD is an educator and critic who has taught at Barnard College, New York University, and The New School for Social Research. Her poetry has been awarded the 1999 Marlboro Review Prize, chosen by Brenda Hillman; a grant from the Barbara Deming/Money for Women Fund; and a grant from the Greenwall Fund of the Academy of American Poets. Richard was born in 1967; she received her BA from Oberlin College and her MFA from New York University. She is nonfiction editor of the literary journal Fence, an editor of the art and culture journal Cabinet, and a frequent contributor to Artforum. She lives in Brooklyn.
Frances Richard makes clear in See Through that her supersonic yet dead-on descriptive skills have been on loan from her terrific poems: I adore/ the cold seconds, before my special heat fans out and warms the twin bed. The book is all/sprawled around, and can be found Arguing, trilling./ Triumphant and violent, icecap distorting the earth s two egg-pointed ends. Publishers Weekly"
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