Holly Krummenacher Iglesias was awarded an invidual artist grant for poetry by the Massachusetts Cultural Council in 2000. She teaches 7th and 8th grade at
the Greenfield Center School. With Catherine Reid, she co-edited Every Woman I've Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers (Cleis Press), and His Hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress: Lesbian Writers on Their Fathers (forthcoming from Haworth Press/Alice Street Editions).
A new chapbook, Good Long Enough, winner of the Frank O'Hara Award, is available from Thorngate Road (Campus Box 4240, English Department, Illinois State University, Normal IL 61790-4240). Another chapbook, All That Echoes Her Large, was published by Permafrost (P.O. Box 75720, University of Alaska, Fairbanks AK 99775). Quale Press will publish Hands-On Saints in 2001.
She completed a PhD in Humanities in 1999, with a dissertation on women's prose poetry entitled Boxing Inside the Box. Her most recent poetry manuscript is Lyric Liar.
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Why prose poems? Because they're healthier than steroids.
Laura Sullivan
Daughters of merchants and bankers, the young wives brought fair enough dowries and a taste for finery: Dresden plates, Belgian lace and a great dish of a hat, its single feather bobbing like spume above the prairie. Girls raised on a diet of contempt for shabbiness and determined to climb. Rosemarie, Helena, Cecilia, their lilting names given as ornament to the flatness cuffing the town, as antidote to any trace of a thick-ankled, dirt-grubbing past.
No other worlds remained, only this new one.
The form that draws me takes the sentence as basic. Declarative, interrogative, exclamatory. The potent imperative: Sit.
This bulk, squat upon the page—I take it to heart.
We who practice form measure value in single words like coins. The resonant clink as they spill, the metallic gleam of a story franked upon each face. Accents that change with climate, determination by position. Inflected, inflicted. Fashion, fascia.
Mourn the passing of lyric I, her stillborn mouth and barked fingertips. A novice eager to suffer, to learn the disciplines all the while shrieking praisesong to words with an ancient root.
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Chapbook Selections:
- from Lyric Liar
Doodles
Flop House
Viscid Poetics
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- from Good Long Enough
A Female Sentence
Destiny Measured in Cups
Laying By
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- from All That Echoes Her sLarge
Sisters-in-Law
My Sexual Revolution
Subjunctive Monologue
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Holly K. Iglesias
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