LONGING DISTANCE, Poems of Love, Lust & Geography by Joanie Puma

LONGING DISTANCE, Poems of Love, Lust & Geography by Joanie Puma

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Joanie Puma’s words jump with energy; they run, they dance, they tell her human heart with the high octane of colloquialism and verve. Her inimitable voice makes poetry more alive than it was before, because she’s not afraid to be herself, and that’s the only kind of poet I want to read.

–Grace Cavalieri, “The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress” 


Puma has mastered the short lyric, each poem a window opening. Sometimes the view looks outward to the poet’s take on Wyoming, to “canyons cut by water,/people cut by lack of it” or roads that teach her “every nut that caresses every bolt in the chassis.” But her apertures look to inward vistas as well, to “the juice in my ligaments.” This is an enchanting collection, marked by clarity and focus.

–Kim Roberts, author of Animal Magnetism (Pearl Editions), Fortune’s Favor: Scott in Antarctica (Poetry Mutual), The Scientific Method (WordTech Editions), and A Literary Guide to Washington, DC: Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers from Francis Scott Key to Zora Neale Hurston (University of Virginia Press)

 

 

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LONGING DISTANCE, Poems of Love, Lust & Geography

by Joanie Puma

$19.99, Full-length, paper

978-1-63534-558-2

2018

Joanie Puma was a staff writer for The New Yorker in the 1970s and ’80s. Her writing has also appeared in Grand Street, Wigwag, Baseball Monologues (Heinemann Books), and The New York Times. She recently completed a comic-mystical novel, The Myth of the Normal Person, and lives near the east slope of the Bighorn Mountains, north central Wyoming’s apostrophic range, where it’s about the sky—the sky—the sky.

 

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