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Makeshift
Instructions for Vigilant Girls
Anhinga
Press, 2011
...coming
March 15, 2011
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directly
from anhinga,
small press distribution, or
amazon
"These
cool, hot poems about women and girls in danger and on the
prowl, coming of age and
being
of age, are full of startling detail and vivid setting.
Meitner's range, wit, compassion and her
alertness
to the moments where domestic and collective experience
intersect, make these poems
memorable.
This book is a seriously good read."
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Daisy Fried
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Ideal
Cities
Harper
Perennial, 2010
winner
of the 2009 National Poetry Series competition, selected by
Paul Guest
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from amazon
or barnes
& noble (also in stock in most B&N stores!)
see
HarperCollins catalog entry here
"Ideal
Cities by Erika Meitner is velocity and
landscape, language and heart, the modern blur in which
we
live. These poems are so generous, so bright and sharp, so funny and
winning, they feel immense:
from
the first lines, I was captivated. They were an unassailable announcement that
the reader
would
never be bored or unmoved, that they were places one would never want to leave."
-
Paul Guest
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Inventory
at the All-Night Drugstore
Anhinga
Press, 2003
winner
of the 2002 Anhinga Prize for Poetry, selected by Stephen
Corey,
&
finalist for the 2004 Paterson
Poetry Prize
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from amazon,
small
press distribution, or directly from anhinga
press
"In
Erika Meitner's Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore, we enter worlds
marvelously realized... in the care
of
a poet who cares: feisty, funny, and ever alert to the telling details of
a life lived in the rush and anguish
of
the post-modern world. These are poems like the tattoos she hymns and
ponders—they mark our being
with
their delicate, indelible patterns, their swoops and utterances and wild
surmises."
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Greg Orr
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