Small Gods of Grief
Poetry, Rare and Signed

Small Gods of Grief

by Laure-Anne Bosselaar


Signed copies available in limited supply

In Small Gods of Grief, Laure-Anne Bosselaar explores her childhood in post-war Belgium and her later struggles with grief, identity, and love in contemporary America. Ms. Bosselaar mixes imaginative lyrics, narratives and dramatic monologues in this empathetic account of what it means to be human. "I love Laure-Anne Bosselaar's poems because they remind me of why I love poetry: because it can make me feel so alive it doesn't matter that death is all around. Small Gods of Grief does that. It affirms, it affirms." —Thomas Lux


Advice


Don't show
your work
until you're
ready to
defend it.

Then, let
others call
it art.


© BOA Editions, Ltd 2001

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Cloth ISBN: 1-929918-05-4
Price: $21.95
Publishing Date: September 2001
Paperback ISBN: 1-929918-06-2
Price: $12.95
Publishing Date: September 2001

FormatPaperback , Hardcover, Hardcover (Signed)
Publication DateSeptember 1, 2001
ISBN1-929918-06-2

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About the Author

Laure-Anne Bosselaar

About the Author

A native of Belgium, Laure-Anne Bosselaar has lived and worked throughout Europe and the United States. She is the author of three collections of poetry in English: The Hour Between Dog & Wolf (BOA, 1997); Small Gods of Grief (BOA, 2001); and A New Hunger (Copper Canyon Press, 2007). Bosselaar was awarded a fellowship at the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, and was a Writer in Residence at The Vermont Studio Center and at Hamilton College. She is currently translating American poetry into French and Flemish poetry into English, and teaches at the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. For more information about Laure-Anne Bosselaar, visit laureannebosselaar.com.

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