Blue Etiquette - Paperback

by Kathleen Driskell (Author)

Best-selling poet Kathleen Driskell's newest collection Blue Etiquette is inspired by Emily Post's 1922 edition of Etiquette and explores the interactions between the haves and have nots through poems voiced by Mrs. Worldly and the Between Maid, narratives focusing on blue-collar Americans, and lyrics drifting through the blue etiquette of mourning beloveds.

Author Biography

Kathleen Driskell is an award-winning poet and teacher. Her poetry collections include most recently Next Door to the Dead and Seed Across Snow, listed as a national bestseller by the Poetry Foundation. Driskell's poems have appeared in many literary journals including the Southern Review, North American Review, Shenandoah, and Rattle and are featured online on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and in American Life in Poetry. At Spalding University, Kathleen is professor of creative writing and a director of the low-residency MFA program. She lives with her family in Louisville, Kentucky in an old country church built before the American Civil War.