Description
In this work, real geographies merge with spiritual ones, just as details of the speaker's physical and emotional worlds intertwine with the transcendent realms of science, religion and myth. Joanna Goodman's poems share a sense of spatial and temporal displacement.
Joanna Goodman graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1994; she now lives in New York City, where she teaches at Baruch College. She won the Discovery/The Nation Prize for 2001. Her poems have been published in the Massachusetts Review, Indiana Review, Sonora Review, Tin House, Fence, Phoebe, and the Literary Review.