New books by Brigitte Byrd and Kate Greenstreet!
Brigitte Byrd, Song of a Living Room
“[I]n writing Song of a Living Room, my field of inquiry was a couple who step into a relationship as one steps into a magic circle
(more accurately in their case, they step into a Celtic knot) which opens an imaginary world to them, a world they create,
a world that also creates them, a world that forces them to create each other, a world that blurs time and space, a world
in which they escape reality, a world in which they may lose themselves. . .” —from the author statement
“Brigitte Byrd writes dense, lovely, provocative poems. Their prose forms and often rational diction are an entrancing shell game
showing and shifting and showing again the true passion and lyricism of her work. In this way, she illuminates the eternal struggle
that our minds and our bodies and our hearts are always engaged in with each other and with themselves.
Song of a Living Room is a splendid collection.” —Robert Olen Butler
Kate Greenstreet, The Last 4 Things
with a DVD containing 2 movies by the author
“The austere second volume from Greenstreet (case sensitive) picks up on her other career as a photographer. Brief prose poems, spare stanzas
and suggestive sequences return to such notions as frame, tint, profile and point of view: ‘We don’t know what it means but we do know
that the person disappears.// The bridge/ attracts us with its brightness.’ . . .
Greenstreet is nothing if not challenging, electric and crisp.”—Publishers Weekly
Ahsahta Press
MFA Program in Creative Writing
Department of English
Boise State University
1910 University Drive, Boise, ID 83725-1525
