Multitudes

by Allison Joseph

Allison Joseph's vision and skill are Whitmanian in their breadth, containing multitudes, as with the bounty contained in these poems of like name.

58 pages, Paperback

Published August 12, 2016

About the author

Allison Joseph (born 1967) is an American poet, editor and professor. She is author of six poetry collections, most recently, My Father's Kites: Poems (Steel Toe Books, 2010).

Born in London to parents of Jamaican heritage, Allison Joseph grew up in Toronto, Canada, and the Bronx. She graduated from Kenyon College with a B.A., and from Indiana University with an M.F.A. She teaches at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and is Director of the Young Writers Workshop at SIUC, which she founded in 1999: a four-day summer program for high school students. Many of SIUC's creative writing faculty and graduate students are involved with the workshop, and the student participants come from several states. In 1995, she was one of the founding editors of Crab Orchard Review as the magazine's poetry editor and has also worked as editor-in-chief since August 2001. She lives in Carbondale, Illinois.

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Reviews

[Amy]

I read and reread Allison Joseph's poems. In my head, out loud, in the bath. Her precise tools of observation and form dredge deep and reveal meaning which might have sadly gone buried for good if not for her sharing it with the world. So glad she does.