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Sara Ryan

    Sara Ryan is een dichteres wiens academische interesses liggen in materiële cultuur en kritiek, poëtische vormen, hybride schrijven en het lyrische essay. Haar werk navigeert behendig door het samenspel van beeld en tekst, en biedt lezers een uniek perspectief. Door haar zorgvuldig uitgewerkte verzen exploreert Ryan de complexiteit van de menselijke ervaring met een onderscheidende stem die resoneert in de hedendaagse poëzie.

    Empress of the World
    I Thought There Would Be More Wolves
    • After moving to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, poet Sara Ryan found herself immersed in the isolated spaces of the North: the cold places that never thawed, the bleak expanses of snow. These poems have teeth, bones, and blood—they clack and bruise and make loud sounds. They interrogate self-preservation, familial history, extinction, taxidermy, and animal and female bodies. In between these lines, in warm places where blood collects, animals stay hidden and hunted, a girl looks loneliness dead in the eye, and wolves come out of the woods to run across the frozen water of Lake Superior.

      I Thought There Would Be More Wolves
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    • Nicola Lancaster is spending her summer at the Siegel Institute - a hothouse of smart, articulate, intense teenagers living like college students for eight weeks. Nic's had theatre friends and orchestra friends, but never just friend friends. And she's certainly never had a relationship.But on the very first day, she falls in with Katrina the Manic Computer Chick, Isaac the Nice-Guy-Despite-Himself, Kevin the Inarticulate Composer... and Battle.Battle Hall Davies is a beautiful blond dancer from North Carolina. She's everything Nic isn't. Soon the two are friends - and then, startlingly, more than friends. What do you do when you think you're attracted to guys, and then you meet a girl who steals your heart?

      Empress of the World
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