What Good Is Heaven by Raye Hendrix
Set in a rural agricultural community in north Alabama, this collection interrogates the complicated relationship between violence and love. Viewed through the lens of a young, bisexual woman, these poems layer a queer coming-of-age narrative with poems of witness to the difficult realities both of rural and farm life and of violent cultural norms.
Raye Hendrix is the author of the chapbooks Fire Sermons (Ghost City Press, 2021) and Every Journal is a Plague Journal (Bottlecap Press, 2021). Her poems appear in American Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere. The winner of the 2019 Keene Prize for Literature and the 2018 Patricia Aakhus Award (Southern Indiana Review), they have also received fellowships from Bread Loaf, the Oregon Humanities Center, and the Juniper Writing Institute. Raye holds a BA and MA from Auburn University, an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and a PhD from the University of Oregon.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781680033717 |
| ISBN 10 | 1680033719 |
| Title | What Good Is Heaven |
| Author | Raye Hendrix |
| Series | The Trp Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Texas Review Press |
| Year published | 2024-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
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