ISBN: 0-88739-502-3
96 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Paperback Original
Price: $9.95
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Hands On
A Zyzzyva Book
Dawn McGuire
Dawn McGuire was born in Grayson, Kentucky, in the foothills of the Appalachians. She graduated from St. Timothy's school and Princeton University, where she won the Academy of American Poets Prize and the Morris Croll Poetry Prize. Her first book, Sleeping in Africa, was published in 1982. Heeding Auden's advice to youn poets, "Do something else," she went on to obtain a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary and an M.D. from Columbia University.
A neurologist and a national authority on the neurologic complications of AIDS, her research focuses on dementia. She is currently the president of a company developing a treatment to combat Alzheimer's disease.
Returning to writing after a long hiatus, she has recently won prizes from the Villa Montalvo Biennial Poetry Competition, The Clackamas Review, and The Spoon RIver Poetry Review.
Review: "Writing from within a life of compassion lived in the bone-heaps and tender tissues of contemporary lives, McGuire presses us to look extremeley and uncomfortably close, and then shows us where the heart in the matter is."
-Judy Grahn
"Dawn McGuire's poems reach across the distances in our lives - between us and within, temporality, misunderstanding - with language that is fresh, smart, and generative. She writes compellingly of our struggles to make our own lives meaningful, with a particular gift for deepening subjective experience. Her poems lead us toward subtle and ordinary wisdom."
-Forrest Hamer
Bio: DAWN MCGUIRE lives in Berkeley with her partner and their two children.
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