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Kristin Prevallet\u2019s previous books include Shadow Evidence Intelligence (Factory School, 2006), Scratch Sides: Poetry, Documentation, and Image-Text Projects (Skanky Possum, 2002), and Perturbation, My Sister: A Study of Max Ernst\u2019s Hundred Headless Woman (First Intensity, 1997). Her essays, poems, and translations have appeared in several magazines including Jacket, The Nation, Chain, Poetry New York, Poets and Writers, Conjunctions, Seneca Review, Bombay Gin and The Chicago Review. From 1994-1997, she served as one of four editors of apex of the M, a literary magazine based in Buffalo, NY that published six issues of exciting work from both emerging and more established writers. She recently co-edited Third Mind: Creative Writing Through Visual Art with Tonya Foster (Teachers & Writers, 2002), an anthology of essays about the challenges and rewards of uniting art and writing in the classroom. Her selected edition of Helen Adam\u2019s ballade and collages, The Helen Adam Reader, has just been released by the National Poetry Foundation.<\/p>\n
Much admired by her contemporaries for her experiments in poetic form, Kristin Prevallet now turns these gifts to the most vulnerable moments of her own life, and in doing so has produced a testament that is both disconsolate and powerful. Meditating on her father\u2019s unexplained suicide, Prevallet alternates between the clinical language of the crime report and lyricism of the elegy. Throughout, she offers a defiant refusal of easy consolations or redemptions. Driven by \u201cthe need to extend beyond the personal and out toward the intolerable present,\u201d Prevallet brings herself and her readers to the chilling but transcendaent place where, as she promises, \u201cdarkness has its own resolutions.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Fanny Howe,\u00a0\u201chere elegy and essay converge leaving only a sense of the poetic itself to comfort a person facing a catastrophic loss.\u201d <\/em>Forrest Gander calls I, Afterlife \u201cthe quietest and most intimate book by one of our best poets.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I, Afterlife: An Essay in Mourning Time by Kristin Prevallet ISBN-13: 978-0-9791189-1-3 List Price: $12.95 Purchase \u00a0About the writer: Kristin Prevallet\u2019s previous books include Shadow Evidence Intelligence (Factory School, 2006), Scratch Sides: Poetry, Documentation, and Image-Text Projects (Skanky Possum, 2002), and Perturbation, My Sister: A Study of Max Ernst\u2019s Hundred Headless […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1218","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essaypress.org\/squeezy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essaypress.org\/squeezy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essaypress.org\/squeezy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essaypress.org\/squeezy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essaypress.org\/squeezy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/essaypress.org\/squeezy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/essaypress.org\/squeezy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1218\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essaypress.org\/squeezy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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