No One with a Past Is Safe is a stunning debut from Page Dougherty. In quiet but powerful narratives, these poems measure the pressure that history exerts on women's experience in ways both close to and far from home. These poems announce the arrival of a poet whose voice cannot be ignored.
"In a long-overdue debut volume that gives voice to the
spiritual daughters of women in Dorothea Lange's photographs and
that reveals the innate and abiding resiliency of such hardscrabble
lives, Page Dougherty has crafted a poetry as personal as it is
political, full of private sympathies and griefs as well as public
reckonings. Like Muriel Rukeyser and Adrienne Rich, Dougherty
raises her voice in praise of 'the solidarities of women,' in
recognition of the 'sheer power in the bonds.' No One with
a Past Is Safe speaks to us all with the urgency of an outsider
whose fluency and vision might save us from ourselves. Here is
one of those rare first books that augurs an indispensable body
of work."
--Michael Waters
Praise for No One with a Past Is Safe |
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No One with a Past Is Safe is earning acclaim from readers. |
Dennis Loy Johnson, Moby Lives |
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"From Cincinnati's Word Press, No One With a Past Is Safe ($16) by Page Dougherty is a powerful collection of narrative poems that quietly champion women overcoming hardscrabble lives." |
Page Dougherty's poems have appeared widely in literary journals, and have
earned her honors including a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a
Mid-Atlantic States Arts Consortium Fellowship, and a NY State Council on the
Arts Writer in Residency. A community organizer in the coal fields of southern
West Virginia in the 1970s, she was active in the miners' wildcat strike movement.
Page Dougherty now lives in New York City, and teaches in the City University
of New York.
$16.00, 94 pages, ISBN: 0-9708667-3-9
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