Imitation of Life

by Allison Joseph

A collection of poetry by Allison Joseph.

Genres: Poetry

104 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2002

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

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Meghan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Allison Joseph writes adolescent female bodies in a way that makes my head spin. These are beautiful poems, rich to the seams, and strong.