Poetry by Michelle Bitting
WINNER OF THE 2007 DENOVO PRIZE
From a review by Robert Peake:
"In her debut full-length collection, Good Friday Kiss, Michelle Bitting delivers a ferocious and nuanced experience of womanhood. These are poems of the sister reflecting on her brother's suicide, of the mother squirting meds into her autistic son's cran-apple juice and nursing her daughter in a vampiric pre-dawn delirium, the uniformed schoolgirl in a tryst with her married teacher, the wife offering her body like bread to her husband before his long journey, the middle-aged left-coast mom facing cancer, plastic surgery, and taking up the guitar again."
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"There is something about these poems that is so immediate, so unflinching, so focused and visceral in their understatement, that I was, on first reading, astonished. On second reading I was astonished and deeply moved. On third reading I was astonished, deeply moved, and filled with joy!"
--Thomas Lux, 2008 De Novo Judge
"This is a new voice unafraid to reveal the self and willing to go the distance."
--Dorianne Laux, author of Facts About the Moon
"In Good Friday Kiss, I find everything I want in a poetry book. Precise language. Daring poems. Unexpected wisdom. An ambitious range of voice and emotion. A sense of anguish and salvation. This is a first book to admire and a poet to watch."
--Virgil Suarez, author of 90 Miles: Selected and New Poems
ISBN 10: 0-9815010-0-1
ISBN 13: 978-0-9815010-0-0
Binding: Tradepaper
Size: 6x9
75 pages
Pub Date: September 2008
Price: US $14.95