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Michelle Bitting’s Good Friday Kiss

ISBN 10: 0-9815010-0-1

ISBN 13: 978-0-9815010-0-0

Binding: Tradepaper

Size: 6x9

84 pages

Pub Date: September 2008

Price: US $14.95

Michelle Bitting grew up in Los Angeles. She was educated at U.C. Berkeley and received an M.F.A. in Poetry from Pacific University, Oregon. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Crab Orchard Review, Many Mountains Moving, Narrative, Prairie Schooner, and Rattle. Her work has been reprinted on Poetry Daily. Formerly a dancer and a chef, she devotes a portion of her time to outreach work in Los Angeles where she lives with her husband, the actor Phil Abrams, and their two children, Elijah and Vera Rose.  

www.michellebitting.com

Praise for Good Friday Kiss

"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

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