Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate Emily Wilson will read from her newest poetry collection, Burnt Mountain. University of Iowa Press describes Burnt Mountain as "set on the rugged slopes of an inauspicious mountain, densely wooded, long ago scoured by fire, and marked by generations of human presence... Fiercely attuned to the match and mismatch between mind and mountain — the ways in which the natural and the human construct and deconstruct each other in the contested realms of art, wilderness, history, devotion, and politics — Wilson’s poetics reckon with resistant forces of nature and with the human drive to subdue what eludes us." Mary Szybist, author of Incarnadine, praises Burnt Mountain as "a panoply of journeys ‘gullying through the somewhat seen' [that] stands in the bristling between silence and a lavishly threshed-out language," while Karla Kelsey, author of Transcendental Factory: For Mina Loy, praises Burnt Mountain as a "sublime refusal to relegate landscape to object or backdrop."

Emily Wilson is author of The Great Medieval Yellows, Micrographia (Iowa, 2008), and The Keep (Iowa, 2001). A visual artist as well as a writer, Wilson lives in Iowa City, Iowa, and western Maine.

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