Description
Pain has a pressure, and the poems in Spoil are the diamonds that result, each sharp with the heart's longings, answered and unanswered, with the clarion terror of living in a body, especially one often at odds with one's will. Bensel's work cuts to the marrow of what it means to be human, to be betrayed by the body and by those we love. But there is hope here, too, that pain can lead to possibility, to beauty, "The seams where you tore apart, mended in rivers."-Emma Bolden, author of The Tiger and the Cage.
About the Author
Alyse Bensel is an educator, writer, and editor. Her poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Blackbird, Pleiades, Puerto del Sol, Southern Indiana Review, West Branch, Zone 3, and elsewhere. Her essays and fiction have been featured at The Boiler, Cream City Review, South Dakota Review, MAYDAY Magazine, and Pithead Chapel.
Book Information
ISBN 9781622882731
Author Alyse Bensel
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint Stephen F. Austin State University Press
Publisher Stephen F. Austin State University Press
About the Author
Alyse Bensel is an educator, writer, and editor. Her poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Blackbird, Pleiades, Puerto del Sol, Southern Indiana Review, West Branch, Zone 3, and elsewhere. Her essays and fiction have been featured at The Boiler, Cream City Review, South Dakota Review, MAYDAY Magazine, and Pithead Chapel.
Book Information
ISBN 9781622882731
Author Alyse Bensel
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint Stephen F. Austin State University Press
Publisher Stephen F. Austin State University Press
