Bøger af Anna M Evans

A powerful book of poems about that most nonpoetic of topics: politics. In bold, skillful verse, poet and politician Anna M. Evans brings home all of hopes and fears for a nation--and makes those hopes and fears a lyric reality.

These poignant and honest poems provide portraits not only of individuals living with the disease, but also of their carers, alongside ruminations on Alzheimer's, on residential homes, and even on the nature of memory itself.

Villanelles may not actually have plans for world domination, but this repeating form of French origin, popularized in the late nineteenth century, makes up more than half the poems in this quirky chapbook by prizewinning contemporary formalist Anna M. Evans.

The desire to provide a universal collection of poems about Alzheimer's from multiple perspectives led directly to this anthology, Forgetting Home: Poems about Alzheimer's. My hope is that the poems within will succor readers who have lost loved ones to Alzheimer's, and support caregivers still coping with the difficult task of "reverse-parenting," without losing sight of the need to respect and honor the disease's sufferers as the individuals they are. Includes poetry by Maryann Corbett, Lois Marie Harrod, Catherine Chandler, Paulann Petersen, Gail White, Maxine Susman, Jean Kreiling, Barbara Ungar, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, Wendy Howe, Paul Lake and many more. "While the ultimate end of Alzheimer's sufferers is a sad one, Anna M. Evans gathers together poets from around the world for the anthology, Forgetting Home, and the experience of Alzheimer's - as patient, loved one, assisted living staff member - is now reshaped into words that lend themselves to the most potent and accessible of reflections, characters, and experiences. Forgetting Home is an evocative poetry anthology that reminds us of something so easily forgotten: one's identity." -- Lisa Marie Brodsky, Verse Wisconsin Online

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore was a French poet who pre-dates the Symbolist Movement, and is largely unknown today outside her native country. This book brings together rare English verse translations of 18 of her poems, along with a translation of an essay on her work by Paul Verlaine.

Saint-Pol-Roux was a French poet associated with the Symbolist Movement, who is largely unknown today outside his native country. This book brings together rare English verse translations of five of his best loved poems, along with translations of significant works by six other important French poets.

An anthology of the best poems that appeared in the online journal, The Barefoot Muse, 2005-2010 Selected and arranged by Anna M. Evans, including poems by: Mike Alexander Tiel Aisha Ansari Peter Austin Michael Battram Kendall A. Bell Kate Bernadette Benedict Kim Bridgford Chris Bullard Michael Cantor Catherine Chandler Edmund Conti Maryann Corbett Robert W. Crawford Erica Dawson Frank De Canio Jehanne Dubrow Robert Klein Engler Julie R. Enszer Annie Finch Carol Frith Ona Gritz Lois Marie Harrod Penny Harter Paul Hostovsky Juleigh Howard-Hobson A.M. Juster T.S. Kerrigan Deborah Kreuze David W. Landrum Quincy R. Lehr J. Patrick Lewis Diane Lockward Austin MacRae Laura Maffei James Scannell McCormick Susan McLean Rick Mullin Bruce W. Niedt Eric Norris Amber Norwood Chris O'Carroll Frank Osen Aaron Poochigian Ray Pospisil Jennifer Reeser David J. Rothman Marybeth Rua-Larsen E. Shaun Russell Paul Christian Stevens Clay Stockton Peter Swanson Gail White James S. Wilk

In Under Dark Waters: Surviving the Titanic, Anna M. Evans juxtaposes the recent loss of her mother with comparable elements and incidents from the 1912 disaster. Evans traces an intricate trajectory from glory to grief by means of vividly imagined details about the people and animals on board the ill-fated ship, along with evidence that the operators' blunders were avoidable. This is poetry of impressive artistry and formal mastery, with Evans in complete command of theme and craft. Under Dark Waters is a unique and spellbinding collection, and deservedly, the runner-up for the 2017 Able Muse Book Award.PRAISE FOR UNDER DARK WATERS: SURVIVING THE TITANIC:Anna M. Evans is one of the best practitioners of the sonnet and the sonnet series. Her series on the Titanic is one of the most memorable I have ever read. The technical difficulty of the poem is noteworthy, but it is the construction of the book, based on that poem as a centerpiece, that is genius.    - Kim Bridgford, author of UndoneAn earlier feminist poet went "diving into the wreck" of personal experience and gender politics. Now comes Anna M. Evans, diving into the wreck of the Titanic to illuminate both personal experience and the politics of social class. Working at the height of her remarkable poetic powers, Evans fuses the historical voyage of the doomed luxury liner with the personal (her mother's fatal illness) and the political (class inequality, resonating with our own disastrous era). The result is one of the best, most unforgettable books I have read in years.    - Julie Kane, author of Paper BulletsDespite the great accomplishment of [Evans's] technical tours de force, it is not admiration for technique that is the main feeling that stays with a reader once the book is finished, rather it is the undeniably powerful emotional force of what is being said.    - Dick Davis (from the foreword), author of Love in Another LanguageABOUT THE AUTHOR:Anna M. Evans' poems have appeared in the Harvard Review, Atlanta Review, Rattle, American Arts Quarterly, and 32 Poems. She gained her MFA from Bennington College, and is the editor of the Raintown Review. Recipient of Fellowships from the MacDowell Artists' Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and winner of the 2012 Rattle Poetry Prize Readers' Choice Award, she currently teaches at West Windsor Art Center and Rowan College at Burlington County.  Under Dark Waters: Surviving the Titanic was the runner-up for the 2017 Able Muse Book Award.