{"product_id":"the-mending-worm-paperback","title":"The Mending Worm - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoan Houlihan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry. \"How strange and hewn and scarified these poems are! In her drive to claim the singularity of her own singed (and searing) fables, Joan Houlihan has composed a brilliant 'black startle-box' of oddment and truths. THE MENDING WORM is a book of stunning accomplishment\"--Lucie Brock-Broido. \"Joan Houlihan's images and figures are lapidary, her diction alert and startling, her lines chiseled, their sounds echoing back and forth, and yet for all the exquisite craft in these poems, there is something terrible and wild underneath their surfaces..THE MENDING WORM gives us poems that in their art and authenticity render whole that which has been shattered. Read them and you will see\"--Fred Marchant. Joan Houlihan is author of Hand-Held Executions: Poems \u0026amp; Essays. She is founding director of the Concord Poetry Center in Concord, Massachusetts, where she also teaches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoan Houlihan\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five books of poetry. Her poems have been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eThe Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Iowa Press) and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Irish-American Poetry-Eighteenth Century to Present\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Notre Dame Press). She has been a contributing critic for the \u003ci\u003eContemporary Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, associate editor for \u003ci\u003eTupelo Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and author of a series of essays on contemporary American poetry archived online at bostoncomment.com. Her teaching includes Columbia University, Smith College, and Emerson College. She currently teaches in the Lesley University Low-Residency MFA Program. She is also Professor of Practice at Clark University in Worcester, MA. Houlihan is founder and director of the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 94\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9.5 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48543494570205,"sku":"9781936970735","price":19.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/GPXPDnIBaO9781936970735.webp?v=1789128142","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-mending-worm-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}