Winner of the 2006 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry.Angela Ball’s lyrical, wry, and rueful poems float on a river of incongruities on which we may find Ron Popeil, Lord Byron, and Rudyard Kipling sharing the same raft; they create a fascinating commerce between the sublime and the ridiculous.

Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds (Pitt Poetry Series)

Literature & Fiction

Ball, Angela

Poetry

University of Pittsburgh Press

Talking Pillow celebrates love as amazement, sustenance, and the progenitor of scarce-believable loss. The book centers around the sudden death of the author’s long-time partner and travels outward to events in the world at large. Imagining themselves into multiple times, places, and lives, the poems comically explore the possibilities of attachment between people and the absurdity of death’s sudden intrusion. Antic and often funny, these poems converse with all that we care about, fear, and fail to understand.

Talking Pillow (Pitt Poetry Series)

Four poems in the voices of four women―Sylvia Beach, Nora Joyce, Nancy Cunard, and Jean Rhys―women adventuring in the literary Paris of the twenties and thirties, women of no fixed address.

Quartet (Carnegie Mellon Poetry)

Carnegie-Mellon University Press

The fourth book of poetry from Angela Ball, who teaches in the Center for Writers, University of Southern Mississippi, where she is an editor for the Mississippi Review. - From a review by Stephen Dunn on this book: "In 'Quartet' [a previous book] Angela Ball showed that she could create credible voices for historical personages, weaving fact and invention with seamless dexterity. Now in 'The Museum of the Revolution' she's created a museum that is both strange and authoritative enough to give us a Cuba which we trust IS Cuba as well as being peculiarly hers. She has made herself Cuba's impressionist. Angela Ball is a marvel. There's no one quite like her."

The Museum of the Revolution (Carnegie Mellon Poetry (Paperback))

Kneeling Between Parked Cars

Owl Creek Pr

“Angela Ball is a poet wise enough to describe love as ‘a double appetite for seeing.’ Her poems are suffused by a wary disappointment in romantic excitement, but with the piqued attention that accompanies desire she makes the world, so far as this can be done, the object of her desire.”―Williams Matthews

POSSESSION

Red Hen Press

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