Hurricane Walk
Poetry

Hurricane Walk

by Diann Blakely Shoaf


Available in limited quantity

This is a first printing of the first edition. Cloth binding. Copies have been archived at BOA Editions, Ltd. since publication and are in fine condition with minimal shelf wearing. Unread. Ideal collector's copy.

Praise for the collection

"Midas knew power first and grief thereafter. Shoaf knows everything she knows all at once, word by word, line by line, poem by poem. These sly poems are spare and ample, both. They're cool and passionate, frank and opaque, artful and true. They're not about what it means to be right--though they acknowledge and even embrace this fatal ambition—but about what it means to be us." —William Matthews


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About the Author

Diann Blakely Shoaf

About the Author

Diann Blakely Shoaf (June 1, 1957 – August 5, 2014) was an American poet, essayist, editor, and critic. She taught at Belmont University, Harvard University, Vanderbilt University, led workshops at two Vermont College residencies, and served as senior instructor and the first poet-in-residence at the Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, Tennessee. A "Robert Frost Fellow" at Bread Loaf, she was a Dakin Williams Fellow at the Sewanee Writers' Conference at which she had worked earlier as founding coordinator. She is the author of Hurricane Walk (BOA, 1992).

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