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Joanna Fuhrman
“…moments of hilarity, illumination, solemnity and insight… Fuhrman’s delightfully weird and most penetrating moments are a joy.”
—Publishers Weekly
November 2009
ISBN: 9781882295777
Available in Print. Digital Format Coming Soon.
Joanna Fuhrman is the author of six books of poetry, including The Year of Yellow Butterflies (Hanging Loose Press, 2015) and the forthcoming To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press, 2021.) Her poems and poetry videos have appeared in numerous journals, including The Believer, Conduit, Fence, New American Writing, Triquarterly, and Volt as well as in various anthologies, including The Pushcart Prize 2011 and 365 Poems for Every Occasion (Abrams, 2015). She teaches creative writing and coordinates the alumni and faculty readings at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. For more see: joannafuhrman.com
Additional Praise:
“…some real poetic gems…we have the real poet.”
— Stride Magazine
“Forget New York poetry. Forget Language poetry. Forget desires for a totalizing poetics. Fuhrman is a leader in the particular, in ‘infra-surrealism.’ She taboos nothing; no form impedes her complete wit. This full poetry is not only ‘feminine, marvelous, and tough,’ but subtle, searching, and wounded—sexual, social, and smart. Fuhrman celebrates new truth-telling, an art of the spectacular pageant.”
—David Shapiro
“Joanna Fuhrman is a witty visionary for our virtual age. Her poems invite you not just to read but to become immersed in their delightfully protean postmodern landscapes. The work is both exotic and mundane, retro and futuristic at the same time. Pulsating with surround-sound and a panoply of ‘neon fluid’ special effects, this book startles as it entertains.”
—Elaine Equi
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