Ohio Radio: Poems - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

Winner of the 2022 Wolfson Press Poetry Chapbook Prize
with an Introduction by Nancy Botkin

Reviews:
These poems celebrate reckless amazement. Small-town pain from Ohio finds itself suddenly grown up on the island of Madeira, possessed by a voice that speaks from understanding the mother, who suffers from mental illness, at work on the pole in a strip joint. We follow a schoolgirl through her summer of cheap sweets, mean friends, threats, and possibility. Later, we find ourselves abroad where that girl as a grown woman is a mother herself, buffeted by the difficulties of parental love. These poems have the power to take us places we have not been and to recognize the truth in what we did not know.
—Brooks Haxton, author of They Lift Their Wings to Cry

The poems in Renee Agatep’s Ohio Radio document the complicated relationship of a heartland native with a past that won’t stop announcing itself in the present. Whether it’s childhood trauma or adolescent love affairs, the characters in Agatep’s luminous poems appear as ghosts in the windows of memory, and the poems give those ghosts a home where they continue to haunt and mesmerize the reader who is lucky enough to hold this book in their hands. Unlike the songs that play so predictability on the Midwestern airwaves, the poems in Renee Agatep’s Ohio Radio are searing elegies for a place that can be left but not forgotten and that dwells in the consciousness of a poet who debuts their impressive talents in this collection.
—Christopher Kennedy, author of Clues from the Animal Kingdom and Ennui Prophet

About the Author
Renée Agatep is an American poet and short story writer who earned her master’s at Northeastern University and is a fellow in the Syracuse MFA program. She is the winner of the 2022 Wolfson Chapbook Prize. Renée is also a Best New Poets, Best Microfictions, and Best of the Net nominee. She is from rural Ohio and currently lives on a small island in the Atlantic.

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