5/10/2023 0 Comments The Bruise by Magdalena Zurawski![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. From the author: Don't Be Scared is a poem/essay generated from my experi. ![]() She is currently Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. She has lived in Berlin, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Durham, NC where she ran the Minor American Reading Series. She attended Brown University where she studied with poets Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop, C.D.Wright, and Peter Gizzi. MAGDALENA ZURAWSKI is the author of The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom (Wave Books 2019), the novel The Bruise, which won the Ronald Sukenick Award from FC2 in 2008 and a LAMBDA literary award in 2009, and the collection of poems Companion Animal, which was published by Litmus Press in 2015 and won a Norma Faber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. It attempts to implicate the classroom itself in a longer narrative of modernity and democratic struggle and in that sense it deploys my academic 'upbringing' for political ends." As a writer, M- is breathless, desperate, and obsessive, questioning the mutations and directions of her words while writing with fevered immediacy. ![]() From the author: " Don't Be Scared is a poem/essay generated from my experiences in the classroom. The bruise does not disappear, forcing M- to confront her own existential fears and her wavering desire to tell the story of her imagination. ![]()
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