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Today's poem is "Gaslight"
from Undoll

YesYes Books

Tanya Grae is the debut author of Undoll (YesYes Books, 2019), a Florida Book Award medalist and National Poetry Series finalist. Her awards include an Edward H. and Marie C. Kingsbury Fellowship, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and the Tennessee Williams Poetry Prize, selected by Yusef Komunyakaa. Her poems and essays appear in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, AGNI, Prairie Schooner, Missouri Review, Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. She is a PhD candidate at Florida State University.

Books by Tanya Grae:

Other poems on the web by Tanya Grae:
"As Faithful as His Options"
Two poems
"The Path of Non-Attachment"
"Waterline"
"Wuthering"
"Matryoshka"
"Post-Hellenic"
"Lethe"

Tanya Grae's Website.

Tanya Grae According to Wikipedia.

Tanya Grae on Twitter.

About Undoll:

"In this deft and restless oeuvre on the enigma that is woman, Tanya Grae displays an expressive narrative mastery that's unusual in a debut. These resolute stanzas are alternately fierce and tender, served up with an addictive skill that inspires awe and roots the reader in stories so many of us are afraid to tell."
—Patricia Smith

"In Undoll, Tanya Grae draws on a multitude of clear images and cultural references to steady the roiling emotional drama underlying her poems. For her fortunate readers, the result is a mixture of literary artistry and human cries of desire, disappointment, and anger. This poet has found a new way to combine a lively, educated mind with the naked reality of the body."
—Billy Collins

"Tanya Grae's Undoll offers us a world where 'every choice goes on forever,' 'everywhere holds a mirror,' and 'our whole is/ a fractal of everything.' Here mothers, daughters, and husbands possess a mirror's unnerving ability not only to reflect but also to distort. Grae writes with such aptness of metaphor, such clarity of vision, that she reminds us, too, of the pleasures a mirror can hold: the seemingly endless iterations of the self, the capacity for transformation, and, yes, an abundance of light."
—Maggie Smith

"Undoll is a book of edges and leaps that examines not just the body of evidence, but the evidence of the body, reaching for an identity from within and beyond the confines of 'daughter,' 'wife,' and 'mother.' The restraint and release of Grae's lines is skilled and sure, and her music works to press her questions: 'Does all prayer have an end in mind?' 'Where does oblivion begin?' 'Who wants to act doe-eyed coy for some guy?' Tanya Grae is a remarkable poet, and Undoll is a stunning debut."
—James Kimbrell



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