Separate Escapes

Poetry. "This is a beautiful, bitter book. Her poems, compelling histories, local testimonies, handfuls of bees frozen, then alive, stinging like love, or the furious assaults of atomic radiation, hold our attention because, like a sharper's three shells with one pea, they reveal secrets within our grasp, which are yet never quite possessed. Poetry ought to shake us, convince us, test us. This poetry does. I love it" --Dave Smith, Editor of The Southern Review. Corrinne Clegg Hales is the author of one prior book of poetry, Underground, and two chapbooks, Out of this Place, and January Fire which is the winner of the Devil's Millhopper Chapbook Prize. She has also recieved two NEA Fellowship Grants and the River Styx International Poetry Prize and is currently the Co-Coordinator of the M.F.A. Program at California State University, Fresno.