Pimone Triplett is an associate professor in the creative writing program at the University of Washington. She has published two books of poems, The Price of Light (2005) and Ruining the Picture (Northwestern, 1998), and coedited an anthology, Poet's Work, Poet's Play (2008). Among her awards are the Larry Levis Poetry Prize and the Hazel Hall Poetry Prize. She also teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.
"Like the classic game of telephone, Rumor spreads and morphs, is
endlessly generative and surprising. The network of these synapses,
the central nervous system of this poetry, is both intricate and
beautiful...Pimone Triplett's intensely beautiful language flays us
open. This is a foreboding look at our innermost secrets, equally
lovely and cruel." --D.A. Powell, author of Chronic
"Pimone Triplett's ambitious third collection, Rumor, is marvelous.
This profound volume is made up of elegantly fractured lyric forms
that veer from dramatic monologue to collaged meditations on the
destructive effects of trade and tourism on national identity,
lineage and motherhood, and history as an evolution of snagged
rumors or 'gossip turned into gospel.' Triplett has written a
thrilling and haunting collection, full of mesmerizing insights on
history and mythmaking." --Cathy Park Hong, author of Dance Dance
Revolution
"Through the chaos of warfare, natural disaster, slavery, and
poverty, Rumor issues its poems to the students who 'can't take
much more of God's ways justified to anyone.' This is a brutal
collection and the sublime violence of bearing a child into the
havoc of the twenty-first century becomes emblematic, in these
stunning, audacious poems, of our ability to bear anything. The
endurance of humanity, despite itself, is what's at stake here, and
as we gaze at the mess of the modern world, as if being led through
circles of familiar hell, we feel that we are ultimately tourists
in a society that we can never fully comprehend." --Robyn Schiff,
author of Revolver
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