Publisher's Synopsis
""Laura Isabela Amsel's poetry collection A BRIEF CAMPAIGN OF STING AND SWEET explores the personal sting of a difficult father, breast cancer, and an unexpected divorce, as well as the more general sting of habitat loss and climate change, yet the sweet remains-horses and birds and flowers survive the squeeze of suburban development, and the poet's own travels and memories of travel begin to open the present up to new possibilities. Amsel distinguishes herself by her linguistic exuberance and craft, her risk-taking and her ear for nuance, for cadence and resonance. The poems in A BRIEF CAMPAIGN OF STING AND SWEET achieve a complex and formal-if grief-shadowed-beauty." -Jon Davis, founder of the Institute of American Indian Arts' MFA Program and author of fourteen poetry collections, including ABOVE THE BEJEWELED CITY and FEARLESS NOW and NAMELESS"--.
