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112 pp 5.375 x 8.375 ISBN 0-9668612-9-9 (paper) $15.95 |
The poems in Like This, Like That revitalize a faith in the imagination. They are intelligent, sad, funny, and always surprising. With poise and an unflinching eye on our underlife, Libby Wagner sings back to us in a voice that is muscular, sensual, and clear.
---Nance Van Winckle
Libby Wagner's first full-length collection of poetry, Like This, Like That, is a work of disciplined emotion: an autobiography of the body and soul, and the record of a journey of a young girl into womanhood in America. All of this is enriched by a gracefully imaginative regard for the world, and however personally referential the details of this life may seem, Ms. Wagner manages through her keen eye for details rich in historical and emotional context, to open up this life so that we may enter there and find our common ground.
---Bruce Weigl
 | Libby Wagner was born in Madrid, Spain, and spent most of her youth moving around the U.S. with her military family. She completed her BA at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, and her MFA in poetry at Eastern Washington University in Spokane, Washington. In between the moves, she's waited tables, worked on volunteer planting crews in the Northwest back country, and sold better sportswear at Lord & Taylor. Currently, she lives on the Olympic Peninsula where she teaches writing, hiking, and women's studies at Peninsula College. |
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