New Release
The Whispering Wall
“The poems in Lissa Kiernan’s The Whispering Wall walk a tightrope between worlds—grief and praise, beauty and ruin, revelation and secrets, the sacred and the profane, dark humor and wonder—and, in that daringly exhilarating and very tricky journey create another world that merges opposites, that accepts both the willingness and unwillingness to embrace all the different dimensions of a life intensely lived.”
—Christien Gholson, author, All the Beautiful Dead
More Titles
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Glass Needles & Goose Quills
“Endlessly formally inventive, Kiernan juxtaposes nuclear plant industry reports, newspaper clippings, and texts of poetics with her own poems and prose. This is a book that will force us to "become unnumb," as she tells us. This is a book that demands our attention."
—Nicole Cooley, author of Girl after Girl after Girl (Louisiana State University Press, 2017)
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Two Faint Lines in the Violet
“Kiernan's sonic variation is keen and her palette complex in this, her debut book of poetry, the title of which comes from Marie Curie's visual accounting of beauty and power hidden from the naked eye.”
— Judith Vollmer, Women's Review of Books
Awards & Recognitions
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Glass Needles & Goose Quills, 2018
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Glass Needles & Goose Quills, 2018
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The Whispering Wall, 2020
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The Whispering Wall, 2020
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Two Faint Lines in the Violet, 2014
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Two Faint Lines in the Violet, 2014
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“Wheres” & “Eclogue on Decommissiong,” Terrain.org Annual Contest, 2012
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“Erratum, Last Line, Final Stanza,” blossombones, 2012
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“Communion,” Redheaded Stepchild, 2011