As I witness their commitment to poetry amid all the pressures and demands from a world that is “too much with us,” I’m grateful to them for helping me put my own doubts aside. My undergraduate students in particular, because of my frequent contact with them, have helped me think about the value of poetry in a world that demands to be understood in dollars and cents.
These poets as young students announced themselves as writers to me, and, as you can see in their essays and bios, already move in a larger world of American poetry.Īs a poet, my most intense and regular exchanges on and around poetry have been with my students. Given the focus of the piece, I thought it especially apt to select seven poets and writers who have been (well, two still are) undergraduate students at the University of Georgia, where I teach creative writing. It’s about the complications and beauty of that space, a space that in many ways feels central to my identity. Using rhythmic language, suffused with allusions to literature and art, Magdalena Zurawski recasts the bildungsroman as a vibrant and moving form.My OS chapbook, Don’t Be Scared, is a long meditation on teaching, on what it means to stand in a college classroom in America today and think about poetry with an excited group of young adults. As a writer, M- is breathless, desperate, and obsessive, questioning the mutations and directions of her words while writing with fevered immediacy. Was the event real or imagined? The bruise does not disappear, forcing M- to confront her own existential fears and her wavering desire to tell the story of her imagination. The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industryand What We Must Do to Stop Itby Antonia Juhasz'95(HarperCollins).
ALUMNI NONFICTION Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction by Susan Cheever'65(Simon & Schuster). In the sterile dormitories and on the quiet winter greens of an American university, a young woman named M- deals with the repercussions of a strange encounter with an angel, one that has left a large bruise on her forehead. The Bruiseby Magdalena Zurawski '95(Alabama). Magdalena Zurawski Books The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom (Wave Books, 2019) Companion Animal (Litmus Press, 2015) The Bruise (FC2/University of Alabama Press, 2008) Anthologies To Buffalo and Back with Renee Gladman, What is Poetry (Just Kidding, I Know You Know): Interviews from the Poetry Project Newsletter (19832009), Ed. Winner of Ronald Sukenick Prize for Innovative Fiction "The Bruise" is a prize-winning novel of imperative voice and raw sensation. In the sterile dormitories and on the quiet winter greens of an American university, a young woman named M- deals wit.
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