Weave: New and Selected Poems - Paperback

by Wendy Barker (Author), Alicia Ostriker (Foreword by)

Weave: New and Selected Poems showcases poems from Barker's long career that includes selections from her seven previous full-length collections, as well as new work. The collection features a wide range of subjects and themes, notable among them the poet's perspectives as an educator (especially in the very real-world concerns of the urban English classroom), surprises and wonders in her family's past and present, and the hope, fear, and trenchant wit with which she sees the world around us.

Author Biography

Wendy Barker is the author of seven previous poetry collections as well as author or editor of two books of criticism. Her work has appeared in hundreds of journals, including Poetry, Southern Review, and Georgia Review. Recipient of an NEA fellowship, a Rockefeller residency fellowship in Bellagio, as well as other awards in poetry, including the Writers' League of Texas Book Award (which she has received twice, for Way of Whiteness in 2000 and for Between Frames in 2007) and the Mary Elinore Smith Poetry Prize from The American Scholar, she has also been a Fulbright senior lecturer in Bulgaria. Her work has been translated into Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and Bulgarian. Poet-in-Residence and the Pearl Lewinn Endowed Chair at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she has taught since 1982, Wendy is married to the critic, biographer, and poet Steven G. Kellman.