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Poetry. "Eula Biss writes in spare brushstrokes that evoke an emotional universe, by turns funny, scary, dreamlike, haunting. These prose poems are shards of gleaming observation, fragments of intimacy and illusion. Here we find our families and ourselves, our words and our silences"-Martin Espada. "With deceptively quiet, unflinching compassion, Eula Biss records the perceptual wedges that cleave the self from its origins. The family history refracted here is mutable, notable, more gravid than grave. THE BALLOONISTS holds a fresh line on confession, biography, and the formal uses of information in poetry"-Rebecca Wolff.
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Eula Biss holds a BA in nonfiction writing from Hampshire College and an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. She is currently an Artist in Residence at Northwestern University, where she teaches nonfiction writing, and she is a founding editor of Essay Press, a new press dedicated to innovative nonfiction. Her essays have recently appeared in The Best Creative Nonfiction and the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction as well as in The Believer, Gulf Coast, Columbia, Ninth Letter, the North American Review, the Bellingham Review, the Seneca Review, and Harper's.
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Biss' slender debut collection is as spare as a Japanese watercolor. Her narrative prose poems limn, via a series of interwoven subjects and themes, the story of a family, complete with a cast of characters and time lines, a tale that, by extension, transcends into the universal. A stunning opening example is the juxtaposition of the mother's amazement that more people don't commit suicide because of the difficulties of living with snippets from a news item reporting a plane crash that focuses on the retrieval and use of the Black Box (actually bright orange), or cockpit voice recorder. Prior to the transcript's release, the National Transportation Safety Board deletes all emotional material, leaving only materials "useful to the public." So too with family histories, Biss suggests in her austere yet sure and evocative poems. Interwoven with swift images of brightly lit, high-ceilinged supermarkets are recollections of a six-year-old crush and fragments of dreams, creating an oddly engaging mosaic. Whitney Scott
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- Publication date2002
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