![]() The poems are divided into three sections. ![]() Reading this tiny volume was accompanied by little exclamations and repeated insistence on reading bits out loud to people who don't really get poetry to begin with, followed by the distinct sorrow of understanding that THIS is greatness and nothing I write will come close. from The Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College.Ĭynthia Huntington is a genius. She was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and received her M.A. Other awards include: the Robert Frost Prize from The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire, the Jane Kenyon Award in Poetry, and the Emily Clark Balch Prize. Huntington has received grants from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as well as two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has published poems in numerous literary journals and magazines including TriQuarterly, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, Cimarron Review, AGNI, Ploughshares, and Massachusetts Review, and in anthologies including The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present (Sribner, 2008) and Contemporary Poetry of New England (Middlebury College Press, 2002). In 2004 she was named Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. She has published several books of poetry, most recently The Radiant (Four Way Books, 2003). Univeristy Press Books for Public and Secondary Schools 2013 editionįinalist for the National Book Award in Poetry, 2012Ĭynthia Huntington is an American poet, memoirist and a professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. At the center is the semiautobiographical Suzy Creamcheese, sensual and rebellious, both almighty and powerless in her sexuality.Īchingly tender yet brutally honest, Heavenly Bodies is an unflinching reflection on the most personal of physical and emotional journeys. Jinns and aliens beckon while cities burn and revolutionaries thunder for change. ![]() Echoing throughout are some of the most famous-and infamous-voices of the Joan Baez and Charles Manson, Frank Zappa and Betty Friedan. Heavenly Bodies is a testament to the duality of sex, the twin seductiveness and horror of drug addiction, and the social, political, and personal dramas of America in the 1960s.įrom the sweetness of purloined blackberries to the bitter taste of pills, the ginger perfume of the Hawaiian Islands to the scream of the winter wind, Huntington’s fearless and candid poems offer a feast for the senses that is at once mystical and earthy, cynical and surreal. In this blistering collection of lyric poems, Cynthia Huntington gives an intimate view of the sexual revolution and rebellion in a time before the rise of feminism.
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