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Joyelle McSweeney

Author of The Red Bird (Fence Modern Poets Series)

14+ Works 165 Members 1 Review

Works by Joyelle McSweeney

The Red Bird (Fence Modern Poets Series) (2001) 28 copies

Flet (2007) 26 copies

Toxicon and Arachne (2020) 21 copies

The Commandrine and Other Poems (2004) 20 copies

The necropastoral: poetry, media, occults (2015) 17 copies

Percussion Grenade: Poems & Plays (2012) 15 copies

Death Styles (2024) 12 copies, 1 review

Nylund, the Sarcographer (2007) 11 copies

Salamandrine: 8 Gothics (2013) 5 copies

Dead Youth, or, The Leaks (2014) 4 copies

The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults (Poets on Poetry) (2014) 3 copies

The commandrine and other poems 1 copy

Tumor Flats (short story) 1 copy

The Necropastoral 1 copy

Associated Works

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (2010) — Contributor — 1,025 copies, 25 reviews

Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (2006) — Contributor — 89 copies

The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (New Series) (2012) — Contributor — 28 copies

The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Contributor — 19 copies

Fairy Tale Review: The Green Issue #2 (2007) — Contributor — 18 copies, 1 review

Fairy Tale Review: The Aquamarine Issue (2009) — Contributor — 8 copies

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Common Knowledge

Gender: female
Education: Harvard University (BA)
University of Oxford (MPhil)
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA)
Occupations: professor
poet
Organizations: Action Books (founder)
University of Notre Dame

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Death Styles by Joyelle McSweeney

Fierce, terrifying and beautiful. These are poems about death and about the fierce demand of living.

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archangelsbooks | Jun 27, 2024 |

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Works: 14
Also by: 6
Members: 165
Popularity: #128,476
Rating: ½ 3.5

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 16

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