Flutter, Kick

Flutter, Kick

By Anna V.Q. Ross
Paperback $17.95

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Publication Date: 8th November 2022

Wary and watchful, never resigned, Flutter, Kick maps the spaces for tenderness we carve in a dangerous world. Read More
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Wary and watchful, never resigned, Flutter, Kick maps the spaces for tenderness we carve in a dangerous world. Read More
Description
In her award-winning second book, Anna V. Q. Ross transforms motherhood into a lens, examining narratives of girlhood, migration, trauma, and inheritance. Compassing home and horizon, this tightly woven, image-rich collection plumbs the political within the domestic and traces the routes of the past within everyday life. A bruise becomes a flower and then a flag planted to claim an adopted land; the hull of a Viking ship becomes the fuselage of a plane carrying an immigrating mother home; the daily routines of carpools, math homework, and bedtime stories are interrupted by memories of abuse and reports of school shootings and environmental collapse. But at heart, these are poems of reclamation, reminding us that “in those days, we were fast and best, but didn’t know it.” Wary and watchful, never resigned, Flutter, Kick maps the spaces for compassion we carve in a dangerous world.
Details
  • Price: $17.95
  • Pages: 96
  • Carton Quantity: 72
  • Publisher: Red Hen Press
  • Imprint: Red Hen Press
  • Publication Date: 8th November 2022
  • Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
  • ISBN: 9781636280455
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    POETRY / American / Hispanic American
    POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
    POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss
    POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places
    POETRY / Women Authors
Reviews
"Ross is especially good at the dismount; her last lines stick the landing in a way that launches the reader into new understandings, new truths, the ones that can’t be spoken all the way." -- Nina MacLaughlin, Boston Globe 
Author Bio

Anna V. Q. Ross’s previous poetry collections are If a Storm and the chapbooks Figuring and Hawk Weather. Her awards include the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry, the New Women’s Voices Prize in Poetry, and fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. Her work appears in Harvard Review, The Nation, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, and other journals. Anna is the poetry editor for Salamander and teaches at Emerson College. She lives with her family in Dorchester, MA, where she runs the performance series Unearthed Song & Poetry and raises chickens.

In her award-winning second book, Anna V. Q. Ross transforms motherhood into a lens, examining narratives of girlhood, migration, trauma, and inheritance. Compassing home and horizon, this tightly woven, image-rich collection plumbs the political within the domestic and traces the routes of the past within everyday life. A bruise becomes a flower and then a flag planted to claim an adopted land; the hull of a Viking ship becomes the fuselage of a plane carrying an immigrating mother home; the daily routines of carpools, math homework, and bedtime stories are interrupted by memories of abuse and reports of school shootings and environmental collapse. But at heart, these are poems of reclamation, reminding us that “in those days, we were fast and best, but didn’t know it.” Wary and watchful, never resigned, Flutter, Kick maps the spaces for compassion we carve in a dangerous world.
  • Price: $17.95
  • Pages: 96
  • Carton Quantity: 72
  • Publisher: Red Hen Press
  • Imprint: Red Hen Press
  • Publication Date: 8th November 2022
  • Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
  • ISBN: 9781636280455
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    POETRY / American / Hispanic American
    POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
    POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss
    POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places
    POETRY / Women Authors
"Ross is especially good at the dismount; her last lines stick the landing in a way that launches the reader into new understandings, new truths, the ones that can’t be spoken all the way." -- Nina MacLaughlin, Boston Globe 

Anna V. Q. Ross’s previous poetry collections are If a Storm and the chapbooks Figuring and Hawk Weather. Her awards include the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry, the New Women’s Voices Prize in Poetry, and fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. Her work appears in Harvard Review, The Nation, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, and other journals. Anna is the poetry editor for Salamander and teaches at Emerson College. She lives with her family in Dorchester, MA, where she runs the performance series Unearthed Song & Poetry and raises chickens.