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Salt. Paperback - 1992

by Renee Ashley

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Madison, WI University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. Paperback First Edition Thus [1992]; First Printing indicated. First Edition Thus [1992]; First Printing indicated. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows indications of very careful use: light wear to extremities; mild rubbing to wrapper covers; a couple of soil patches at the rear panel; binding square and secure; text clean. Remains close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. Squarish 8vo. 60pp. Winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry. Wisconsin Poetry SeriesUniversity Press Paperback. Renée Ashley describes Salt as an attempt, in part, to mythologize a period of the 1950s and early 1960s in the California Bay Area suburb where she grew up, “a racially rich, economically varied section of town east of El Camino Real—the major road and the ‘tracks’, so to speak, that one grew up on the right or wrong side of.” Many of the poems in the collection explore Ashley’s adjustment to the East Coast after a virtual lifetime in “that one place.” They deal with landscape, with marriage, with the insight distance seems to lend to hindsight, with amusement, with regret.
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  • Title Salt.
  • Author Renee Ashley
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition Thus [1992]; First Printing indicated.
  • Pages 70
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Wisconsin Press,, Madison, WI
  • Date 1992.
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 40965
  • ISBN 9780299131449 / 0299131440
  • Weight 0.29 lbs (0.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.46 x 6.29 x 0.25 in (21.49 x 15.98 x 0.64 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91-12357
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

From the rear cover

'While, as she reminds us, 'We have not the eyes for darkness / and our ears are poor cousins / to those who measure the night, ' Renee Ashley can tune our ears to the thoughts of a wounded sparrow, to the sibilance of snow on stone, even to the song rocks make as they thaw in spring. Through her keen portrayal of 'The Way Birds Must Live' or her glorious meditation on 'The Way Women Sweat, ' the corruscating, multifaceted title poem 'Salt, ' or the pungent narrative in 'Skunk, ' Ashley wakes us to an intricate, enthralling world behind, beneath, beyond the one we thought we knew, alive with particulars, laces with compassion, luminous with humor.' -Donald Finkel, citation for the Brittingham Prize

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About the author

Rene Ashley teaches creative writing at Ramapo College in New Jersey and at Rockland Center for the Arts in New York. Her poems have been published in many notable journals including New England Review, Kenyon Review, North Atlantic Review, and Southern Poetry Review.

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