    A search for roots and identity has rarely been captured with such irony, unusual insight, and surprising humor as in this memoir of heartbreak and hope. Today a distinguished American poet, Colette Inez first came to the United States when she was eight years old, as an apparent Belgian orphan escorted by two complete strangers. Growing up in post–World War II America, a stranger to her own past, she survived a harrowing adolescence and an increasingly menacing, abusive adoptive family by learning to define her single solace: a developing passion for literature.    Facing possible deportation in the 1950s, Inez set out to prove her claim to U.S. citizenship. The result, as she recounts in this eloquent, wrenching memoir, would span two continents, a trail of discovery, and a buried secret: one that ultimately allowed Inez to reconcile her past and present and finally come of age as an artist.

The Secret of M. Dulong: A Memoir (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)

Inez, Colette

History

University of Wisconsin Press

Alive and taking names, and other poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Ohio University Press

A collection of poetry by Colette Inez.

Clemency (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series)

Carnegie-Mellon University Press

Family Life (Story Line Press Poetry Series)

Story Line Press

Eight Minutes from the Sun

History & Criticism

Saturday Press

Bridge is a literature, arts and culture journal published out of Chicago. Our first issue includes works of original fiction, poetry, essays and a number of hybrid forms, including travelogues, and group-composed shorts. For more on Bridge, check out our website, where new, shorter work by Bridge print edition contributors appears weekly. Or almost weekly.

Bridge: Stories and Ideas

Arts & Photography

Workman, Michael

Chernoff, Maxine

Lanier, Chris

Zograf, Aleksandar

Gibbons, Reginald

Pollack, Neal

DOMINI, JOHN

Maliszewski, Paul

Charles, Bryan

Vonnegut, Kurt.

Golus, Carrie

Douglas, Thax

Walzer, Kevin

Badikian, Beatriz

Furtak, Rick

Gaughran, Tracey

Hamilton, Greg

Juros, Jake

Kendrick, Monica

Leick, Karen

Leming, Warren

Newberry, Jim

Purcell, Greg

Sparks, Rennie

Syverson, Ralph

Timberlake, Ben

Timmons, Susan

Trykv, Cheryl

Welch, Patrick

Architecture

Bridge Magazine

One of NYC's most popular poets issues "The work of a lifetime".In the vanguard of contemporary poetry since the 1970’s, Colette Inez’s unique and thoroughly original voice is an important contribution to American Poetry. She has been praised by poet laureate Stanley Kuntiz—"I like the hard contents of her poems, the anger and the fine control"—and Anne Sexton, who said Inez’s work gave her "that kind of pain/pleasure one gets from the real thing."Her latest collection combines her wild sense of fun with wide-ranging erudition, in a book that is both a love letter to New York City and to the great tradition of the Enlightenment. SPINOZA DOESN'T COME HERE ANY MORE shows Inez at the peak of her talents, in a stunning tour-de-force that may be the most impassioned yet controlled work of her illustrious career. The collection shows her voice to be as vivacious, smart, and fiery as ever, now with a seasoned wisdom and compassion that's absolutely beguiling. It is, in short, the work of a lifetime.

Spinoza Doesn't Come Here Anymore (New York Poets)

New York Poets Series

Luba, an invented female consciousness, is someone who loves travel, astronomy, poetry, sex, among other varied interests. She has her private sorrows as well as high kicks and thrills. She’s an imagined Colette Inez who is intellectual and sparkles with ever-changing ideas and images, sometimes bordering on the surreal. Luba’s eloquent musings and demeanor jolt us from the wondrously ethereal into moments of actuality.

The Luba Poems

Red Hen Press

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