Description

Poetry. Does everyone have a half- imaginary-friend, half-alter-ego figure walking beside them? That’s what Doris is for author Gretchen Primack. DORIS’ RED SPACES moves back and forth between poems from the author’s perspective and those about or in the voice of Doris. The two characters’ attitudes and actions converge and diverge on wide-ranging topics. There are poems that affirm both characters’ desire to not bear children, poems that talk frankly of suicide, poems that explore adolescence, sexual hunger, and grief. The poems’ language, simultaneously sharp and lush, brings the characters to life. “Doris is proud to love the fall,” starts one poem. “I’m tired,” begins another. And a third: “Doris and I walked through with a bright / frog of color at the corner of each eye. / We were on our way to the edge / of the earth...” These poems delve to the heart of what drives human beings, whether in relation to one other or alone in our own musings, with honesty and approachability but also with more than a nod to the magical.

About the Author

Gretchen Primack's poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review, FIELD, Antioch Review, Ploughshares, and other journals. She is the author of a previous poetry collection, Kind (Post Traumatic Press, 2013) and a chapbook, The Slow Creaking of Planets (Finishing Line, 2007). Primack has worked as a union organizer, working women's advocate, and prison educator. Also an advocate for non- human animals, she co-wrote The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals (Penguin Avery, 2012) with Jenny Brown. She lives in the Hudson Valley.

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