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Moth
No matter how far life draws us from home, the tug of the familiar is always there, turning our eyes and our steps. In Alice Pettway's second collection of poetry, the light of family and tradition is so bright it sometimes singes. These poems cast the lure of the unknown against the certainty of return, an emotionally tenuous landscape captured in Pettway's spare language. Her work has appeared in The Miami Herald, Teaching Tolerance, WomenArts Quarterly, and more. She is a former Lily Peter fellow, Raymond L. Barnes Poetry Award winner, and three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Currently, she lives in Shanghai.
64 pages, Paperback
Published April 29, 2019
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Alice Pettway
5 books3 followersAlice Pettway is the author of The Time of Hunger (2017), Moth (2019) and Station Lights (2021). Her poetry has appeared in AGNI, The Bitter Oleander, The Colorado Review, Poet Lore, Rattle, River Styx, The Southern Review, The Threepenny Review and many respected publications. She is a former Chulitna Artist and Lily Peter fellow. Currently, Pettway lives and writes near Seattle, Washington.
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