A Bride of Narrow Escape

Download or read book A Bride of Narrow Escape written by Paulann Petersen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and the winner of two Carolyn Kizer Poetry Awards, Paulann Petersen has been on the faculty for the Creative Arts Community at Menucha, and has given workshops for Oregon Writers Workshop, Oregon State Poetry Association, and Mountain Writers Series. Madeline DeFrees says, "After the erotic poems of The Wild Awake, and the Turkish poems of Blood Silk, Paulann Petersen gives us [in] A BRIDE OF NARROW ESCAPE...stunning poems, intimate and deeply tender." And Lawson Inada says, "She ventures into the recesses of memory, explores the complexity of nature, and human nature...here is poetry of revelation and wonder." Oregon Literary Arts has chosen Paulann Peterson to receive The Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award for her work for the Friends of William Stafford. Paulann is also a finalist for the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry, a part of the 2006 Oregon Book Awards