A Bride of Narrow Escape

by Paulann Petersen

Poetry. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and the winner of two Carolyn Kizer Poetry Awards, Paulann Petersen has been on the faculty for the Creative Arts Community at Menucha, and has given workshops for Oregon Writers Workshop, Oregon State Poetry Association, and Mountain Writers Series. Madeline DeFrees says, "After the erotic poems of The Wild Awake, and the Turkish poems of Blood Silk, Paulann Petersen gives us [in] A BRIDE OF NARROW ESCAPE...stunning poems, intimate and deeply tender." And Lawson Inada says, "She ventures into the recesses of memory, explores the complexity of nature, and human nature...here is poetry of revelation and wonder." Oregon Literary Arts has chosen Paulann Peterson to receive The Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award for her work for the Friends of William Stafford. Paulann is also a finalist for the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry, a part of the 2006 Oregon Book Awards

Genres: Poetry

86 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 2005

Reviews

[Jennifer Collins · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quiet and intimate, this is one of those poetry collections that is ripe for wandering through, piece by piece, when there's plenty of time for re-reading and savoring. It's not that the poems are so difficult as to require the re-reads, but that they're so full and textured with lovely images and lines that bleed into one another, gracefully and guiding, so that they're easy to slip through and then slip back through, rediscovering them.

Some of these poems, I'll come back to again and again, and I imagine I'll at some point re-read the collection in full. Absolutely, I'd recommend this to poetry lovers.

[Judy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Paulann Peterson is the Oregon poet Laureate. This collection includes poems about her father's and mother's death. Excellent.

[Mills College Library]

811.54 P4846b 2006