First printing: 2,000 copies.
Camille Guthrie is the Director of the Undergraduate Writing Initiatives at Bennington College. Her poems have appeared most recently in Best of American Poetry 2019 & 2020.
Diamonds is Guthrie’s fourth collection of poems. Her previous book, Articulated Lair: Poems for Louise Bourgeois, was published in 2013.
The poem “During the Middle Ages” from this collection was published in Best American Poetry 2020.
Guthrie takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to a midlife crisis from a feminist perspective. Her poems approach divorce, parenting, western art history, and middle-age with wry humor and sharp commentary toward historical gender roles. Strong appeal for feminist book clubs.
Strong regional appeal in New England.
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