Woman Prime
Poems
Distributed for University of Alaska Press
70 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2018
Review Quotes
Jericho Brown, author of Please and The New Testament
“DiMaggio is a poet whose work is memory. She recasts the past so we begin to understand that the world actually has only two temperatures—love and fear: ‘Precisely. No bias or preference. Everything equal in its burning away.’ Woman Prime looks directly at the life of a daughter and wife and mother all the while showing us how silly it is to try and see our whole and complex existence without getting tears in our eyes. Heartfelt and headlong, this is a beautiful debut.”
Ann Dernier, author of In the Fury
“With cheek to the gritty skin of the sidewalk perspective, mines memory and masterpieces for reflection at the moment of recognition. She’s familiar / with disaster—a daughter lost to suicide. / Paintings a boyfriend cut from the frame/ to wrap the plumbing. Through the works of Alice Neel, Singer Sargent, Kahlo, de Koonig, Warhol, and through a collage of family history, DiMaggio painstakingly restores the relentless beauty with sensuous honesty.”
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