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The Rival by Sara Wallace

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In The Rival, Sara Wallace takes her readers on an intimate journey through a woman's solitary, surreal rural childhood and her brutal, sexually fraught first marriage to the conflicted redemption she finds in motherhood and a second chance at love. In this debut poetry collection, Wallace reveals how closely emotional devastation and transcendence can coexist. The Rival is sensuous, darkly humorous, and frequently luminous in its unflinching exploration of the inner life.

About the Author
Sara Wallace is the author of Edge, winner of the 2014 Center for Book Arts Chapbook Competition. Her work has appeared in such publications as Agni, Hanging Loose, Michigan Quarterly Review, Grand Street, and others. She teaches at New York University and lives in Brooklyn, USA.

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"Always in motion through a landscape in restless mimesis of the speaking self, these poems declare 'I'm going to take you as far as I can.' And Wallace's unabashedly naked words lay bare hidden urgencies in that quest to arrive at some always shifting center. 'This life, so redolent and stark/ you'd split open if you stopped,' she tells us. This is a stunning debut collection."-Peter Cooley, director of Creative Writing, Tulane University.


"Sara Wallace's brilliantly conceived poetry is both searing and tender by turns. Visceral, fierce, and unapologetic, her poems confront the reader like a series of shattered mirrors. Operatic in scope yet incisive as a laser, this work will seize you-so be warned-and refuse to let go."
-David St. John, author of The Face: A Novella in Verse and Study for the World's Body: New and Selected Poems


"Sara Wallace is a poet of quiet extremes. The poetry is serious or breezy or written with the high art of a Mozart or Bach, and then it veers casually into the everyday when it must. Wallace is an extraordinary poet, one who sees and feels everything, and brings it to us beautiful and new. In The Rival she understands the deep mystery of the human experience, and plays wildly and crafts seriously right there between reality and imagination where the poetry is. These are unforgettable poems."
-Laura Kasischke, author of The Infinitesimals






Book Information
ISBN 9781607814238
Author Sara Wallace
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint University of Utah Press,U.S.
Publisher University of Utah Press,U.S.
Weight(grams) 137g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 5mm

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