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Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with the emotionally unavailable bruno or even with her own thoughts and feelings, anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences. A winner of the bakeless poetry prize and recipient of two nea literature fellowships, essbaum is a member of the core faculty of the low residency mfa at the university of. Intimate, intense, and written with the precision of a swiss army knife, jill alexander essbaums debut novel is an unforgettable story of marriage, fidelity, sex, morality, and most especially self. A novel by jill alexander essbaum anna was a good wife, mostly. Jill alexander essbaum s publications include the fulllength collections heaven, harlot, and necropolis, and a chapbook of sonnets, oh forbidden. Look closer, though, and among the twirling stems you. Chicago tribunefor a first novelist, essbaum is extraordinary because she is a poet.
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