Lisa Parker is a native Virginian, a poet, musician, and photographer. This is a reprint of her first book, This Gone Place, which won the 2010 ASA Weatherford Award. She has worked in the Department of Defense for nearly twenty years, worked as a first responder for 15 years, and currently serves as a crisis and disaster response volunteer with Team Rubicon. Some of her work may be found at www.wheatpark.com.
There is everything at stake-unabashed and utterly necessary-in
Lisa Parker's brilliant first book. Memory and family and the blood
of the land. Have you missed real poetry? Have you wondered where
it's gone? Well, here it is. This is poetry in Lisa Parker's
tending hands: stunningly new, yet familiar to the heart as
scripture.-Honorée Jeffers, author of Red Clay Suite and The Gospel
of Barbecue
What an amazing mind comes through in every poem in this
collection, a rare and wonderful distinction among first books in
this country which are leaning more and more toward the
cerebral-with its deep and unrelenting irony and cynicism-and
moving farther and farther from human experience with all its great
complexities. If indeed this place of which Lisa Parker writes is
now "gone," it is brought back to us now, through her speaker,
whole-cloth and shining with all the beauty and truth of that
place, those people. Lisa Parker is an original voice, and her work
in this book moves her reader back again into the deepest recesses
of the human experience, pressing us deeply down into that thing we
sometimes call a "heart."-Anne Caston, author of Flying Out with
the Wounded and Judah's Lion
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