Welcome to Guardian Angel School
Winner of the Finishing Line Press 2019
Open Chapbook Competition
“In these elegiac, highly readable poems, Jody Winer's steady, skeptical eye teases out the distinction between memory and fact, between art and illusion, that orders her orbit through city, countryside, friendship, and marriage…. Like Elizabeth Bishop, Winer is primarily concerned with how perception both distorts and connects.”
—Julie Sheehan, author of Bar Book: Poems & Otherwise (W.W. Norton) and Orient Point (W.W. Norton)
“A miraculous and accomplished debut…. ‘The Creature Grief’ is visceral throughout this collection…. Playfulness, and an irresistible delight in language, temper Winer’s soberer themes.”
—Grace Bonner, author of Round Lake (Four Way Books) and The Book of Atlantis Black (Tin House)
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