Amelia Martens's prose poems reveal expansive ideas in compressed language. From the domestic to the geopolitical, from the mundane to the miraculous, these brief vignettes take the form of prayers, parables, confessions, and revelations. Intimate and urgent, Martens's poems are strange, darkly funny, and utterly beguiling.

Amelia Martens is the author of the chapbooks Purgatory (Black Lawrence Press, 2012), Clatter (Floating Wolf Quarterly, 2013), and A Series of Faults (Finishing Line Press, 2014). She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University, and lives in Paducah, Kentucky, where she teaches at West Kentucky Community & Technical College.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 04/12/2016
ISBN: 9781941411230
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.50w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Booklist 04/15/2016 pg. 10
Publishers Weekly 05/02/2016
Library Journal 06/15/2016 pg. 80