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Through prose poems, lyric poetry, and other commentary, author Jean Donnelly, in her first major work of poetry, explores the very nature of poetry, which "hitchhikes between chapels," while she makes profound literary observations on the nature of the medium. Bernstein writes of her work: "Anthem is fresh as the first moment of the rest of your live, where invention is an attribute jof grace and the intimacy of the newly coined rules the roost. O can you hear the charms bursting in ear."
Jean Donnelly lives in the Washington, D.C. area, is a graduate of George Mason University, and co-founder of So To Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art.
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Through prose poems, lyric poetry, and other commentary, author Jean Donnelly, in her first major work of poetry, explores the very nature of poetry, which "hitchhikes between chapels, " while she makes profound literary observations on the nature of the medium.
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The winner of the 2000 National Poetry Series competition, selected by Charles Bernstein.
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Poetry. In selecting this collection for the 2000 National Poetry Series awards, Charles Bernstein wrote "ANTHEM is fresh as the first moment of the rest of your life, where invention is an attribute of grace and the intimacy of the newly coined rules the roost." The four long poems which comprise ANTHEM open outward not via abstraction but through the specifics of intimacy. Invention is ultimate-the parent, the friend, and the child, are found, finally, to impact one's public sense of community and citizenship. This collection moves from works inspired by letter, to lyrical folklore, and finally, to the private, domestic landscape.