![]() |
Playing Monster :: Seiche was the Editors' Selection for the 1913 Press Prize for First Books in 2016. This is a book-length poem weaving many threads, but predominantly childhood experiences with an abusive father and, as an adult, increasingly aggressive acts made toward the speaker's mother by strange men. Playing Monster :: Seiche is a piece of noir poetics. It is memoir. It is documentary. REVIEWS Publishers Weekly starred review | In NewPages |In The Hopkins Review PRAISE Arterian weaves a family narrative of devastating clarity from letters, By looking terror right in the face and saying what she sees, [Arterian] puts ESSAYS & "A Dialog on First Books, in Two Parts" with Andrew Wessels at LARB ETC The Poetry Foundation's 2017 Staff Picks | SPD Recommends List (December) SPD Bestseller List (December, February) | 20 Questions with rob mclennan POEMS Boog City | Eleven Eleven | Sink Review | Two Serious Ladies | The Volta PLAYING MONSTER :: SEICHE
(1913 Press, 2017) PLAYING MONSTER :: SEICHE TRAILER AGRIPPINA THE YOUNGER:
An Allegory This manuscript circles around the life of Agrippina the Younger, known for murdering, seducing, and manipulating her way into the most powerful position possible for a woman at the time: Empress of the Roman Empire. This manuscript was recently named a finalist for the Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, and given Honorable Mention by Claudia Rankine for the AWP Donald Hall Prize. EXCERPTS Action, Spectacle | Black Warrior Review | BOMB
|