Night Holds Its Own - Paperback

by Ciara Shuttleworth (Author)

In this wonderful collection of poems, Night Holds Its Own, CiaraShuttleworth lives up to the early promise of her best known work, theastonishing "Sestina." Her territory is the human heart and mapped hereinis the confusing nexus of love, loss, and above all, desire. Its inhabitantsare a restless tribe, seeking in motion what they have lost in their all tootemporary couplings. "I'm concentrating on the rear-view/like I'm goingsomewhere." In these poems, natural forces promise both oblivion andredemption; lightening is shroud and wedding dress, and the scent of the ocean can track you down even in the middle of the desert. This collection will leave you, like the "What Sings Is the Drunk Boy's Hands," ..".always singing, One more, just one more."- Robert Schenkkan, Pulitzer prize and Tony Award winning author

Author Biography

Ciara Shuttleworth was born in San Francisco and grew up in Nebraska, Nevada, and Washington state. Her poetry has been published in journals and anthologies, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Confrontation, The New Yorker, The Norton Introduction to Literature 11e, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review. Shuttleworth received an MFA in poetry from University of Idaho, a BFA in painting/drawing from San Francisco Art Institute, and a BA in studio art from Gustavus Adolphus College. She was a 2014 Jerome Foundation Fellow at the Anderson Center at Tower View, and The Jack Kerouac Project of Orlando's 51st resident at Jack Kerouac House. Her website is www.ciarashuttleworth.com.