Historical April–May 2011 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Jane O. Wayne’s fourth book of poetry, The Other Place You Live (Mayapple Press, $14.95), continues her tradition of mining the commonplace for rare glimmers.
Her keen observations of the ordinary draw the reader inward. Pushcart Prize winner Jennifer Atkinson writes, “Her elegantly controlled and balanced lines restrain deep emotion – grief, empathy, joy.” Titles like “The Subtractions” and “The Uncertainties Call” and subjects like a nursing home visit or a neurosurgeon’s verdict (Tumor, he says, noninvasive/though it spreads quickly/through the room you’re in/takes over so there’s nothing else/to talk about) confirm her poetry is not for cowards. Winner of the Devins Award, the Marianne Moore Poetry Prize, and the Society of Midland Authors Poetry Award, the long-time Parkview resident has taught at the Washington University Summer Writer’s Institute.
Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Iowa Review, The American Scholar, and many other journals.
On May 2nd, Jane will join in a benefit reading for River Styx magazine (for information, BigRiver@riverstyx.org).
The Other Place You Live is available for purchase from Left Bank Books and online at Amazon from Mayapple Press. Contact Margaret Hermes, 314-726- 5683, hermes.margaret@gmail.com.
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The Other Place You Live book cover. Designer not separately credited.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, April–May 2011.
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