Minglements: Prose on Poetry and Life

by Renee Ashley

Poems, rutabagas, charm school, webs, drowning, depression, on particular Puritan preacher, a mother, the Easter Bunny, flatulence, a duck decoy, brass stanchions, leftovers, paintings, dogs, aging, ghosts, not-ghosts, criticism, questions, answers, and memory. For Renée Ashley, everything's connected, and so Minglements comes forth in rays of entanglements, some hilarious, some not so hilarious at all. This collection is a kind of guided tour through the way a mind works. Now, when people ask Ashley, What planet do you live on? she can hold up this book in response.

268 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2019

About the author

Renée Ashley is the author of three volumes of poetry: Salt (University of Wisconsin Press, 1992), winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, The Various Reasons of Light, The Revisionist's Dream (Avocet Press, 1998), and a chapbook, The Museum of Lost Wings (Hill-Stead Museum Press). She is also the author of the novel Someplace Like This (Permanent Press, 2003). She has received fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a contributing editor to The Literary Review, and is on the faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University's low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing.