The Bindery is so excited to host the launch party for Melissa Stein's second book of poems! Don't miss it, friends. More details to be announced on the main event page. Stay tuned!
In this lush, disturbing second collection from Melissa Stein, exquisite images are salvaged from harm and survival. Set against the natural world’s violence—both ordinary and sublime—pain shines jewel-like out of these poems, illuminating what lovers and families conceal. Stein uses her gifts for persona and lyric richness to build worlds that are vivid, intricate, tough, sexy, and raw: “over and over // life slapping you in the face / till you’re newly burnished / flat-out gasping and awake.” Breathless with risk and redemption, Terrible Blooms shows how loss claims us and what we reclaim.
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“Ms. Stein reminds us that there is no honey—rough, or otherwise—without the sting.” —The New York Times
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Melissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible Blooms (Copper Canyon Press) and Rough Honey, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, selected by Mark Doty. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, The American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Harvard Review, New England Review, and many other journals and anthologies. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She is a freelance editor in San Francisco.
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In this lush, disturbing second collection from Melissa Stein, exquisite images are salvaged from harm and survival. Set against the natural world’s violence—both ordinary and sublime—pain shines jewel-like out of these poems, illuminating what lovers and families conceal. Stein uses her gifts for persona and lyric richness to build worlds that are vivid, intricate, tough, sexy, and raw: “over and over // life slapping you in the face / till you’re newly burnished / flat-out gasping and awake.” Breathless with risk and redemption, Terrible Blooms shows how loss claims us and what we reclaim.
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“Ms. Stein reminds us that there is no honey—rough, or otherwise—without the sting.” —The New York Times
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Melissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible Blooms (Copper Canyon Press) and Rough Honey, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, selected by Mark Doty. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, The American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Harvard Review, New England Review, and many other journals and anthologies. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She is a freelance editor in San Francisco.
The Bindery is so excited to host the launch party for Melissa Stein's second book of poems! Don't miss it, friends. More details to be announced on the main event page. Stay tuned!
In this lush, disturbing second collection from Melissa Stein, exquisite images are salvaged from harm and survival. Set against the natural world’s violence—both ordinary and sublime—pain shines jewel-like out of these poems, illuminating what lovers and families conceal. Stein uses her gifts for persona and lyric richness to build worlds that are vivid, intricate, tough, sexy, and raw: “over and over // life slapping you in the face / till you’re newly burnished / flat-out gasping and awake.” Breathless with risk and redemption, Terrible Blooms shows how loss claims us and what we reclaim.
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“Ms. Stein reminds us that there is no honey—rough, or otherwise—without the sting.” —The New York Times
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Melissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible Blooms (Copper Canyon Press) and Rough Honey, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, selected by Mark Doty. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, The American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Harvard Review, New England Review, and many other journals and anthologies. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She is a freelance editor in San Francisco.
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In this lush, disturbing second collection from Melissa Stein, exquisite images are salvaged from harm and survival. Set against the natural world’s violence—both ordinary and sublime—pain shines jewel-like out of these poems, illuminating what lovers and families conceal. Stein uses her gifts for persona and lyric richness to build worlds that are vivid, intricate, tough, sexy, and raw: “over and over // life slapping you in the face / till you’re newly burnished / flat-out gasping and awake.” Breathless with risk and redemption, Terrible Blooms shows how loss claims us and what we reclaim.
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“Ms. Stein reminds us that there is no honey—rough, or otherwise—without the sting.” —The New York Times
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Melissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible Blooms (Copper Canyon Press) and Rough Honey, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, selected by Mark Doty. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, The American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Harvard Review, New England Review, and many other journals and anthologies. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She is a freelance editor in San Francisco.
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