{"title":"Kathryn Nuernberger","description":"\u003cp\u003eKathryn Nuernberger is the author of \u003cem\u003eRue\u003c\/em\u003e (BOA, 2020), the James Laughlin Award-winning \u003cem\u003eThe End of Pink\u003c\/em\u003e (BOA Editions, 2016), and the Antivenom Prize-winning \u003cem\u003eRag \u0026amp; Bone\u003c\/em\u003e (Elixir Press, 2011). Her collection of lyric essays, \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrief Interviews with the Romantic Past\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Ohio State University Press, 2017), won the Non\/Fiction Prize from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn unapologetic dilettante, she has received research fellowships from \u003cspan\u003eH. J. Andrews Research Forest, American Antiquarian Society and the Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life. Other awards include an NEA fellowship and the James Laughlin Prize from the Academy of American Poets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHer poems and essays have appeared widely in journals, including \u003cem\u003e32 Poems, Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, Field, The Florida Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry International, West Branch, Willow Springs, Poetry Daily, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eVerse Daily.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe holds a PhD in English Literature from Ohio University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University. After spending many years directing Pleiades Press, she now teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Minnesota and lives with her family in Minneapolis–St. Paul, MN. For more information, please visit \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kathrynnuernberger.com\/\"\u003ekathrynnuernberger.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-end-of-pink","title":"The End of Pink","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2015 James Laughlin Award, Kathryn Nuernberger’s \u003cem\u003eThe End of Pink\u003c\/em\u003e is populated by strange characters—Bat Boy, automatons, taxidermied mermaids, snake oil salesmen, and Benjamin Franklin—all from the annals of science and pseudoscience. Equal parts fact and folklore, these poems look to the marvelous and the weird for ways to understand childbirth, parenthood, sickness, death, and—of course—joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eWhen Cortez Came\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCortez in Hispaniola.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCortez in Santo Domingo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCortez in Peru.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEvery night there arose a sign like and antler of fire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMany fled in canoes, crashing and sinking\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003einto each other in their haste.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEvery night was heard the jaguar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eof a woman weeping.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe waters of the lake boiled up crackling.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA comet appeared,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ebursting into three heads.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMen were fighting. They rode on the backs of deer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA brown crane\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ewith a breast like a mirror\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eshowed Montezuma what was becoming.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA brown crane\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eushered in the thistle people,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003esingle-bodied, two heads.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBefore his horror and his fear, they vanished,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003elittle purple smoke\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eof what was becoming.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIt pierced the trees of heaven\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eto their very core.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eI like the parts about the deer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eand the crane.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Thistle people”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eis a pretty way to say it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Praise for \u003cem\u003eThe End of Pink\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eThe remarkable designs of a landscape created by Kathryn Nuernberger give us such a stamp of hoof, wonder, and wit—so much wisdom and understanding of what it means to truly fling your body into the world. This is an unforgettable collection of sly-sexy poems of desire, grief, and motherhood, finally offering up the ‘truth of it, the refracted light and blooming anemones of it, the red \/ coral and unfurling starfish of it.’ But perhaps the greatest gift from \u003cem\u003eThe End of Pink\u003c\/em\u003e is the insistence of ‘how very emerald joy is, how very leafed with lapis and gilding’—a passionate aide-mémoire to hold off a surrender to the dark.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Aimee Nezhukumatathil\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eI love the ways in which \u003cem\u003eThe End of Pink\u003c\/em\u003e confronts the idea of wisdom, and deftly deconstructs it. When is fable and myth more accurate than science? When does graybearded public authority submit to the wisdom of messy, private experience? How does the wisdom of the book measure up against the wisdom of the body—the female body especially? What do we do when our everyday language fails to represent reality? Poetry, of course, is the answer to this last question, and it is the poetry of Kathryn Nuernberger in particular that makes a place for us in our uncertainty. Not a safe place, not a place of comfort, but a place of surreal, dark beauty that knows us all the same.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Nicky Beer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePublication Date: September 13, 2016\u003cbr\u003eISBN: \u003cstrong\u003e978-1-942683-14-8\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2016\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":17214946565,"sku":"9781942683148","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/TheEndofPink_FinalFront.jpg?v=1527683368"},{"product_id":"rue","title":"Rue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of\u003cem\u003e Big Other\u003c\/em\u003e's \"Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2020\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this fiercely feminist ecopoetic collection, Kathryn Nuernberger reclaims love and resilience in an age of cruelty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the speaker—an artist and intellectual—finds herself living through a rocky marriage in a conservative rural state, she maintains her sense of identity by studying the science and folklore of plants historically used for birth control. Her botanical portraits of common herbs like Queen Anne’s lace and pennyroyal are interwoven with lyric biographies of groundbreaking women ecologists whose stories have been left untold in textbooks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith equal parts righteous fury and tender wisdom, \u003ci\u003eRue\u003c\/i\u003e reassesses the past and recontextualizes the present to tell a story about breaking down, breaking through, and breaking into an honest, authentic expression of self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for Kathryn Nuernberger\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRue\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant meditation on corporeality, history, and what it means to move through the natural and material world—be it a field of pennyroyal or the Dollar General—in a female body. Kathryn Nuernberger’s astonishing poems present an urgent and devastating discourse, via many-layered gut-punch narratives, of the complex ways in which we are connected to one another that together become a powerful reckoning on female strength and desire in the #MeToo era.” \u003cb\u003e—Erika Meitner, author of \u003ci\u003eHoly Moly, Carry Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This collection lets you open yourself to the possibility of truth stripped bare of the cultural baggage that keeps us from speaking our minds to strangers and friends and lovers alike. Let \u003ci\u003eRue\u003c\/i\u003e bewitch you, let it charm you, as rue strung around the neck to keep your vision sharp and deflect from plague and remedy what ails you. Let it locate what ails you, and extract it with whatever needs to be said.” \u003cb\u003e—Jennifer Givhan, author of \u003ci\u003eRosa’s Einstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“These long, chattering poems offer so much warmth and intimacy of voice that we hardly notice Kathyrn Nuernberger has talked us straight into confrontations with some of the most sinister aspects of Western modernity. The animal violence underlying bourgeois decorum, the suffocating brutality of our patriarchy, and the gross and beastly truths of our human sexuality are all lined up here. Nuernberger knocks them down one by one with cutting humor, a breadth of erudition and book smarts, and the reassuring potency of her feminism.” \u003cb\u003e—Jaswinder Bolina, author of \u003ci\u003eThe 44th of July\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Kathryn Nuernberger’s remarkable collection \u003ci\u003eRue\u003c\/i\u003e asks what it means to know another person, how imagination and action intersect to shape our experiences of love and desire. I adore how her poems show a mind in motion, its obsessions, its honesties. I adore its deft syntax winding us from a love of nature to the nature of love, interrogating what it means to love complicated people in history and in the present—what it is to \u003ci\u003ebe\u003c\/i\u003e a complicated person. Among the book’s questions are concerns with the female body—who gets to control it and how, who imperils it and under what guise of professionalism or friendship, and what flowers let women control it for themselves.” \u003cb\u003e—Traci Brimhall, author of \u003ci\u003eSaudade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe New Elements\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElements can be named after a scientist,\u003cbr\u003ea mineral, a place or a country, a property,\u003cbr\u003eor a mythological concept. The four new\u003cbr\u003eelements, all of which are synthetic,\u003cbr\u003ewere discovered by slamming lighter nuclei\u003cbr\u003einto each other and tracking the resulting\u003cbr\u003edecay of the radioactive superheavies.\u003cbr\u003eI don’t know about you, but I’m tired\u003cbr\u003eof making things out of other things.\u003cbr\u003eI came out to this bar to read the news\u003cbr\u003ein the company of people falling in love\u003cbr\u003efor only the second or third time. Like\u003cbr\u003eother superheavies that populate the end\u003cbr\u003eof the periodic table, the new ones exist\u003cbr\u003efor only fractions of a second before\u003cbr\u003edissolving into more familiar atomic particles.\u003cbr\u003eIs it true that I’m here hoping a stranger\u003cbr\u003emight take me home? Of course it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cspan\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2020\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31210243653713,"sku":"9781942683971","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/Rue_CVR.jpg?v=1579695661"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/KNuernberger_AuthorPhoto.jpg?v=1573495722","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/kathryn-nuernberger.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}