The Anna's Youngest Passenger: A Journey Beyond Imagination
Anna journey (born november 1980 in arlington, virginia) is an american poet and essayist who was awarded a 2011 national endowment for the arts fellowship in poetry. A book salesman with a grievance might pick up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. Or an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle,. Anna journey is the author of the poetry collections the judas ear, the atheist wore goat silk, vulgar remedies, and if birds gather your hair for nesting. A young woman immigrant finds herself torn between her bright future and the lingering memories of her grandmother’s journey during the partition of 1947 anna camins follow
The judas ear (lsu press, 2022), the atheist wore goat silk (lsu press, 2017), vulgar remedies (lsu press, 2013), and if birds gather. Anna journey, in her new book of poems, vulgar remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic/alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of childhood, the dangerous. Anna journey is the author of the collection if birds gather your hair for nesting (university of georgia press, 2009), selected by thomas lux for the national poetry series. This collaborative interview with the poet anna journey took place during the seminar, “contemporary first books of poetry,” a graduate course for students in the mfa program at.
