Remorseless Loyalty

by Christine Gelineau, Deborah Fleming (Editor), Stephen H. Haven (Editor)

Christine Gelineau, winner of the 2004 Richard Snyder Publication Prize, is the author of two chapbooks of poetry, North American Song Line and In the Greenwood World. Gelineau is the assistant director of the Creative Writing Program at SUNY Binghamton, where she teaches literature and creative writing. She also teaches in the low-residency MA in Writing Program at Wilkes University. She lives with her husband on a farm in upstate New York. Full of depth yet delightfully absurd, these mature poems skillfully deal with the many faces of death and loss in a concise and contemplative tone that shines with passion and love through the serious themes explored by the poet.

79 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2006

About the author

Christine Gelineau’s book-length sequence APPETITE FOR THE DIVINE has just been published by Ashland Poetry Press as the Editor’s Choice in their McGovern series. She is also the author of REMORSELESS LOYALTY (Ashland Poetry Press, 2006), which was awarded the Richard Snyder Memorial Prize, and which was subsequently nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Gelineau’s other books include two chapbooks from FootHills Publishing, North American Song Line (2001) and In the Greenwood World (2006), as well as French Connections: A Gathering of Franco-American Poets, an anthology she edited with Jack B. Bedell (Louisiana Literature Press, 2007). Gelineau’s poetry, essays and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Prairie Schooner, New York Quarterly, Connecticut Review, New Letters, The Iron Horse Review, Green Mountains Review, Georgia Review and others. Her poems have twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and her essay “Foal Watch” is cited as a “Notable Essay” in the 2004 Best American Essays while her essay “Cops” was the runner-up in the 2009 Florida Review Editors’ Award in Creative Nonfiction. Gelineau lives on a farm in upstate New York. She teaches at Binghamton University, where she is Associate Director of the Creative Writing Program and coordinator of the Readers’ Series. She also teaches poetry in the low-residency graduate writing program at Wilkes University.