ELYSE FENTON is the author of the poetry collections, Clamor, winner of the 2010 University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize and Sweet Insurgent (Saturnalia 2017), winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, Pleiades, Brain, Child, and Prairie Schooner, and has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered and PRI's The World.
"Elyse Fenton's searin, g intimate new collection issues many
urgent challenges, including this one: "If destruction has so many
names/we ought to know at least a few." Her poems remind us that
naming matters, and that without it, we cannot confront the terms
our participation in global or national citizenship, or even the
nature of our roles in our most intimate family relationships.
Fenton has the rare fortitude and heart and willingness to really
absorb and grapple with news from both near and far, and with
exacting intelligence and deep knowledge of history and myth. Sweet
Insurgent reminds us that the difficult is not impossible. These
deft, alert poems slow us down and prompt us to consider and
re-imagine what it means to speak with the right "kind of
restraint" even when we ache to "love with fury." "--Mary Szybist
(1/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"The body, across these poems, is fragile yet dangerous--with its
strengths and passions, its seeming willingness to be injured. The
body's perpetual warring against and for a lover, a soldier, a
daughter, a heaven, a "ferocious world"--all are rendered in images
as small and intimate as bone ground to sand along Omaha beach or a
migraine pouring "its lash of oil into my ear." What would the body
be without its appetites?"--Natalie Diaz (1/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)
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