Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Jennifer Atkinson grew up in Connecticut, and was educated at Wesleyan University (B.A.) and the University of Iowa (M.A. and M.F.A.). Her first book of poems, The Dogwood Tree, was published in 1990. Her poems have also appeared in numerous journals, including Field, Poetry, Delmar, Yale Review, and The New England Review. She teaches at George Mason University and lives in Fairfax, Virginia.
Synopsis
What happens when belief-as artistic ambition, as a lover's devotion, as faith in divinity-is met with a staggering indifference? This is the question which Jennifer Atkinson's The Drowned City seeks variously to answer, and to which the poems themselves, finally, elegantly, unflinchingly become the only appropriate answer, one that does not offer closure to its questions so much as a means of fashioning a life inside them.
-from the Foreword