Dolefully, A Rampart Stands
  • Published: 5 February 2019
  • ISBN: 9780143132684
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $35.00
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A collection of haunting, image-rich poems about isolation, captivity, and vanishing.

A collection of haunting, image-rich poems about isolation, captivity, and vanishing.

The poems in Paige Ackerson-Kiely's third collection are set primarily in the rural northeast of America, and explore rural poverty, entrapment, captivity, violence, and a longing to vanish. Ranging from free verse to a long noir prose poem, they examine who her, or our, "captors" might be. Ackerson-Kiely is interested in characters who are aware of their foibles, and who find ways to turn away from those problems in search of connection and freedom.
  • Published: 5 February 2019
  • ISBN: 9780143132684
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $35.00
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Praise for Dolefully, A Rampart Stands

Advance Praise for Dolefully, A Rampart Stands:

"Ackerson-Kiely interrogate[s] the structures of power that determine which narratives, and which storytellers, have the privilege of an unwavering trust . . . [she] sketches a landscape in which sexism and economic oppression are indelibly linked . . . [revealing] the ways that power, censorship, and disbelief are internalized, as they live with us in our most solitary moments, and they circumscribe what is possible within our dreaming." --Kristina Marie Darling, Kenyon Review

Praise for My Love Is a Dead Arctic Explorer:

"Funny and wild with expertly conceived images . . . [Ackerson-Kiely's] poems make the familiar more familiar . . . and remind us to be absolutely shot through with anxiety and uncertainty and desire." --Michael Robbins, Chicago Tribune

"Dark, full of nature, and full of life, this collection will snarl its way into your soul." --Flavorwire