Wier's new poetry collection published
English professor Dara Wier’s new poetry collection, “You Good Thing,” was published April 2 by Wave Books.A review in the Jan. 21 issue of Publishers Weekly said, “Opening with a sketched map and quote—“by the longest possible route”—from Fernando Pessoa, Wier’s 11th collection delights in its turnings and tangents, line to line, poem to poem. These loose sonnets—in some respects traditional lyrics addressing a illusive Other—echo Pessoa’s experiments with how the self writes and is written.”
Writing in Heavy Feather Review, Jordan Sanderson said, “In the collection, imagination and memory converge to reveal places within places, making the familiar strange and the strange familiar.”
To celebrate the book’s release, Wier will give a reading with Dan Chelotti, a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets and Writers, on Wednesday, April 10 at 7 p.m. at Elms College in Chicopee.
She also will be reading from the collection on Saturday, April 27 at 7 p.m. at Flying Object, 42 West St. in Hadley. The program will also include MFA program alumni Rachel Glaser and Seth Landman and visiting poet Michelle Taransky.
The book is available in paperback for $16.
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Monday, April 1, 2013
