Placebo Effects by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
"This collection of beguiling poems . . . takes as its avenue into experience the palpable, quotidian objects of the intimate environment. A barometer, an arrangement of flowers, a vase, a carpet, a pyramid of oranges in a city marketplace are seen and then entered as one might enter the action of a film. . . . There is something of the child's wondrous way of seeing the world that electrifies." — Boston Globe "Jeanne Beaumont's poems are smart and full of feeling, heartbreakingly in love with the snares and clarities of the language she writes in, and lit throughout by a kind of wry wonder." — William Matthews "How rare to discover so sly and disarming, so luminous and compelling a debut." — David St. John
Jeanne Marie Beaumont: Jeanne Marie Beaumont (www.jeannemariebeaumont.com)is the author of Curious Conduct, published by BOA Editions in 2004, and Placebo Effects, selected by William Matthews as a winner in the National Poetry Series and published by Norton in 1997. With Claudia Carlson she coedited the anthology The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines including Barrow Street, Court Green, Denver Quarterly, Good Poems for Hard Times, LIT, The Manhattan Review, The Nation, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Daily, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007, World Literature Today, and others. Her poem Afraid So was made into a short film by award-winning filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt which has been shown at over two dozen international festivals, including the TriBeCa Film Festival and the 2008 Split This Rock Poetry Festival; it won 2nd prize at the Black Maria Film Festival, among other awards. She has taught at Rutgers University and the Frost Place in Franconia, NH, where she is now the Director of the annual Frost Place Advanced Seminar. She currently teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd St. Y and in the Stonecoast low-residency MFA program of the University of Southern Maine. A native of Pennsylvania, she has made her home in Manhattan since 1983.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393318913 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393318915 |
| Title | Placebo Effects |
| Author | Jeanne Marie Beaumont |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 1999-09-08 |
| Number of pages | 98 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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