{"title":"Brenda Coultas","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"a-handmade-museum-2","title":"A Handmade Museum","description":"\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #9a6372;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eFrom the Bowery to rural Southern Indiana, Coultas’s poems are a millennial roadmap of American life.\u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"CHPbeta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43707402702,"sku":"","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1475\/9808\/products\/A_Handmade_Museum.jpg?v=1511890161"},{"product_id":"the-marvelous-bones-of-time","title":"The Marvelous Bones of Time","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #9a6372;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoetry by Brenda Coultas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eOctober 1, 2007 • 6 x 9 • 140 pages • 978-1-56689-204-9\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBrenda Coultas unearths the eccentricities and tragedies that congregate along humanity’s borders.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncorporating memoir, folktales, fact, and hearsay into two distinctly moving poems, this collection begins with “The Abolition Journal,” set near the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, and along the Kentucky border where “looking from the free state \/ there is a river then a slave state.” Here, Coultas delves into her personal history and uncovers a land still troubled by the specter of slavery. In “A Lonely Cemetery,” Coultas collects and investigates “true” tales of UFO sightings, poltergeists, legendary monsters, and eerie crematoriums, exploring the very nature of narrative truth through the lens of the ghost story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn Indiana native who has worked as a carny, a park ranger, a waitress in a disco ballroom, and the second woman welder in Firestone Steele’s history, Brenda Coultas now lives in New York. Coultas was a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in 2005. Her poetry has been published in \u003cem\u003eBrooklyn Rail, Encyclopedia, Conjunctions,\u003c\/em\u003e and many other journals. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eA Handmade Museum,\u003c\/em\u003e winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award, and \u003cem\u003eThe Marvelous Bones of Time.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThanks to a 2013 ADA Access Improvement Grant administered by \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vsamn.org\/\"\u003eVSA Minnesota\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e for the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, this title is also formatted for screen readers which make text accessible to the blind and visually impaired. To purchase this title for use with a screen reader please call (612) 338-0125 or email us at \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"mailto:info@coffeehousepress.org\"\u003einfo@coffeehousepress.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text\"\u003e“As the title suggests, \u003cem\u003eThe Marvelous Bones of Time\u003c\/em\u003e is a meditation on earthly things: vanished nations, the mutable names of rivers, the clues left behind when families disperse; terror and beauty, the banalized crimes of complicity, the diversions of superstition—but also the persistence of clairvoyance. Resistance in the form of a poem such as this.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Rikki Ducornet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CHPbeta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43707782990,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1475\/9808\/products\/The_Marvelous_Bones_of_Time.jpg?v=1515109228"}],"url":"https:\/\/coffeehousepress.org\/collections\/brenda-coultas.oembed","provider":"Coffee House Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}