Beautyberry

Poetry. "This is a book of boundaries, objects, intersections. A book of multiple selves caught in the midst of self-definition. A book of conflagrations ('my hair / yesterday's / fire caught / in a disaster'). A book inhabited by all the poets who came right up to the edge over which this
book falls ('I consider any verge / a haunting'). A book by a daughter of Dickinson but of this moment. This book is not afraid to address abstractions: What is the beloved? What is a body? What is knowledge? This book barrels toward showing us what can't be told."--Mary Jo Bang

Cassie Donish is the author of the poetry collection The Year of the Femme (University of Iowa Press, 2019), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the nonfiction chapbook On the Mezzanine (Gold Line Press, 2018), selected for publication by Maggie Nelson. Her writing has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Best New Poets, Colorado Review, jubilat, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review Online, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. Co-editor-in-chief of The Spectacle, she earned her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where she received an Olin Fellowship and served as the Junior Fellow in Poetry. She holds degrees from the University of Oregon and the University of Washington, and she currently teaches at the University of Missouri in Columbia, where she’s pursuing a PhD in literature and creative writing. She grew up in South Pasadena, California. Beautyberry is her first book of poems.