Burn Lake
$44.94
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
25 May 2010
Summary
Selected for the 2009 National Poetry Series by Natasha TretheweySet in southern New Mexico, where her family’s multi-cultural history is deeply rooted, the poems in Carrie Fountain’s first collection explore issues of progress, history, violence, sexuality, and the self. Burn Lake weaves together the experience of life in the rapidly changing American Southwest with the peculiar journey of Don Juan de Onate, who was dispatched from Mexico City in the late sixteenth- century by Spanish royalt…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143117711 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143117718 |
| Author: | Carrie Fountain |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 25 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 109g |
| Dimensions: | 213mm x 140mm x 8mm |
| Series: | Penguin Poets |
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About The Author
Carrie Fountain
Carrie Fountain was born and raised in Mesilla, New Mexico. Fountain’s books include the National Poetry Series award winner Burn Lake and Instant Winner. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, and Tin House, among others. She received her MFA at the James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin where she was a fellow. She lives with her husband, playwright and novelist Kirk Lynn, in Austin, Texas.
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