Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone
Poetry, Rare and Signed

Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone

by Janice N. Harrington


Signed copies available in limited quantities

Winner of the 5th Annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
Winner of the 2008 Kate Tufts Discovery Award  

"Like a stringed instrument that continues to vibrate after the musician has ceased playing, Harrington's poems resonate. Without in any way simplifying or ignoring the darker side of life—pain, loss, death, injustice—Harrington is a celebratory poet who sees with the fresh, wondering eye of a child, but knows with the mind and heart of an adult." 

—Elizabeth Spires, from the Foreword

"Her rich, colloquial poems draw on both folklore and science, and are tributes to her weary but tenacious family in their journey North."

The Tartan    

"Early in the manuscript, Harrington introduces her readers to the constructed world we are to inhabit.  She proclaims in the last line of the first poem, ‘I build a house for us.  Rejoice.’ And what follows is her brilliant foundation, and many reasons for praise."

Post No Ills Magazine

© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2007
FormatPaperback (Signed), Paperback
Publication DateApril 1, 2007
ISBN9781929918898

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About the Author

Janice N. Harrington

About the Author

Janice N. Harrington’s writing explores cultural history, the natural world, visual arts, and African American life in the South and Midwest. Her latest poetry collection, Yard Show, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, was a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award, and was longlisted (top 10) for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It follows her earlier collections: Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone, The Hands of Strangers, and Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin. Her first book won the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Harrington is also an award-winning children’s author. Her first picture book, Going North, received the Ezra Jack Keats Award, and she has since published numerous picture books, including biographies and a verse novel. A Cave Canem fellow, she is the Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick Professor of English at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She lives in Champaign, Illinois, where she regularly visits prairies, Black history sites, and spaces that celebrate books.

For more information about Janice N. Harrington, visit www.janiceharrington.com.

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