Camille Guthrie

Diamonds

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Diamonds presents a woman in midlife on the edge. In hilarious and heartbreaking poems, Camille Guthrie writes about the trials and surprises of divorce, parenting, country life—and the difficulties and delights of being alone, looking at art, and falling in love.

Witty resilience abounds in these irreverent poems about grief and desire—in which the poet meditates upon gender roles, history, pop culture, and academia. Guthrie subverts and teases traditional forms in an elegy about Sylvia Plath’s prom dress, a dating profile for Hieronymus Bosch, a sestina about beauty and power—with radical dramatic monologues in the voices of Madame du Barry, a Pict Woman, and more. Unlike Virgil, who refuses to guide this poet through her journey at midlife, Guthrie leads readers by the hand into a provoking, affecting journey of a break-up and a reconciliation with love.
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53 printed pages
Original publication
2021
Publication year
2021
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  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    She holds an MFA from Brown University and a BA from Vassar College, and she has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell and the Yaddo Foundation. Currently, she is the Director of Undergraduate Writing Initiatives at Bennington College. Born in Seattle, she moved to Pittsburgh at twelve, then later lived in Brooklyn for many years. Now she lives in rural Vermont with her two children.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Her poems have appeared in such publications as At Length, Boston Review, The Iowa Review, The New Republic, Poem-a-Day, Tin House, as well as in several anthologies including The Best American Poetry 2019 & 2020 (Scribner) and Art & Artists: Poems (Everyman’s Library).
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Camille Guthrie is the author of three previous collections of poetry: Articulated Lair: Poems for Louise Bourgeois (2013), In Captivity (2006), and The Master Thief (2000)—all published by Subpress

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