Desdemona's Fire

Poems

Author Ruth Ellen Kocher

This is the author's first book and winner of the 1999 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. While miscegenation has always been more a part of American history than many want to admit, "Desdemona's Fire" journeys through this often forbidden landscape in poems that are sometimes painfully poignant, yet fresh in their imagery and detail.

Bio

Ruth Ellen Kocher earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing 1994 and earned a doctorate in English in 1999.

Praise for this book

...At the heart of these stunning poems is a precise and imaginative examination of the thin line that separates beauty and terror, wisdom and madness, tolerance and hatred.

Bruce Weigl
Cover of "Desdemona's Fire" featuring an illustration of a red flame against a black background
Date published
Publisher
Lotus Press
ISBN
978-0916418830
Genres
Poetry, Humanities, Arts
College or unit
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of English

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