Ash Paperback by Sharan Strange

Product Details

• Publisher: Beacon Press (2001-04-18)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 84 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780807068632
• Item Weight: 96.39 grams
• Dimensions: 21.59 x 13.97 x 0.48 cm

Sharan Strange's poetry brings to life the lush mysteries and brutalities of growing up in a rural Southern town. At once a portrait of a community and the poet, Ash traces that alchemy by which the life stories of those around us are transmuted into our own.

About the Author

Sharan Strange grew up in Orangeburg, South Carolina, was educated at Harvard College, and received the M.F.A. in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a contributing and advisory editor of Callaloo and cofounder of the Dark Room Collective. Her poetry has appeared in Agni, The American Poetry Review, Callaloo, The Best American Poetry 1994, The Garden Thrives, In Search of Color Everywhere, and in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum in New York and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.