Rust Fish
ISBN: 978-0-9844510-9-8
$15.00 , 18.00 (Canada)
8.5" x 5.5"
“Maya Zeller’s American Northwest is a land of verdant sensuality, insistent yet fragile and intimate as it was in the eyes of Roethke, storied in mossy and weathered details, human ruin and hard won grace as it was in the heart of Kesey. With extraordinary veracity and empathy she inhabits the body and emerging consciousness of a girl and young woman alive to the lives around her. There are poetry books with the power to move poets, fewer poetry books with the power to move lovers of literature, and those rare poetry books with the power to move just about anyone else. Rust Fish is all three.”
—Jonathan Johnson
More information about Maya Jewell Zeller and Rust Fish can be found at http://mayajewellzeller.wordpress.com.
To read a conversation (on landscape’s role in poetry) between Maya and fellow poet Laura Read, visit centrum.org.
About the Author(s)
Maya Jewell Zeller
Maya Jewell Zeller grew up in the Pacific northwest. Born at home in the upstairs apartment of her parents' gas station on the Oregon coast, Maya has been a high school teacher, cross country and track coach, an editor, a college professor, and most recently, a mother. Her poetry has won awards from The Florida Review and Crab Orchard Review, and appears widely. she currently lives in Spokane with her husband and daughter, and teaches English at Gonzaga University.
Reviews
Review by Shannon Wagner of Ploughshares
Review by Debrah Lechner of Hayden’s Ferry Review
Review of Rust Fish by nonfiction author Ana Maria Spagna
Rust Fish By Maya Jewell Zeller (A Review By P. Jonas Bekker)