Erin Keane's new book, Death-Defying Acts, is a collection of monologues by a varied cast of circus performers--the Aerialist, Zorada (a fortune teller), the Clown, the Tattooed Lady, the Lion Tamer and even the Lion. They're living on the "existential edge" says Richard Cecil, and their stories are crazily, eerily familiar to all of us. Erin Keane’s Death-Defying Acts, a collection of persona poems, tells the story of one summer on the road with a small-time circus, weaving together the stories of performers living on the fringe of society. Their voices, including a jaded lion tamer and her favorite lion, a fortune teller with a cruel streak and a Magic 8 Ball, a patient tattoo artist, and the midway’s omniscient photo booth, echo back and forth as . — Erin Keane, author of Death-Defying Acts and Demolition of the Promised Land Amorak Huey’s The Insomniac Circus strips the make-up from the clowns, the taming from the lions. These poems provide us with an exhilarating and dangerous landscape through which we are allowed to walk, bleary-eyed, and led by the sort of ringmaster in whose.
Death-defying acts by Erin Keane, , WordFarm edition, in English - 1st ed. Death-Defying Acts. Erin Keane's Death-Defying Acts, a collection of persona poems, tells the story of one summer on the road with a small-time circus, weaving together the stories of performers living on the fringe of bltadwin.ru voices, including a jaded lion tamer and her favorite lion, a fortune teller with a cruel streak and a Magic 8 Ball, a patient tattoo artist, and the midway's. Death-Defying Acts by Erin Keane; Whale Man by Alan Michael Parker; The Assumption by Bryan Dietrich; Authors. Rane Arroyo, Stacy Barton, David Caplan, Steven Cramer, Debra Kang Dean, Bryan D. Dietrich, Forrest Gander, Ruth Goring, Mark Halliday, Jerry Harp, H. L. Hix, Mark Irwin, Erin Keane, Sarah Kennedy, John Leax, Eric Pankey.
Erin Keane is the author of two books of poems, Death-Defying Acts (WordFarm, ) and The Gravity Soundtrack (WordFarm, ). Erin Keane lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where she teaches poetry workshops and more for the National University MFA program and writes about theatre and books for LEO. Erin Keane's new book, Death-Defying Acts, is a collection of monologues by a varied cast of circus performers--the Aerialist, Zorada (a fortune teller), the Clown, the Tattooed Lady, the Lion Tamer and even the Lion. They're living on the "existential edge" says Richard Cecil, and their stories are crazily, eerily familiar to all of us. Erin Keane's new book, Death-Defying Acts, is a collection of monologues by a varied cast of circus performers--the Aerialist, Zorada (a fortune teller), the Clown, the Tattooed Lady, the Lion Tamer and even the Lion.
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