The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72

Molly Peacock

Join us as Molly Peacock reads from her new book, The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72; A juicy biography of the 18th-century mixed-media collage pioneer—a grieving widow in her 70s—and brilliant exploration of late-life creativity.

Molly Peacock, a poet and a creative nonfiction writer, is the author of six books of poetry, including The Second Blush, and Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems . Among her other works are a memoir called Paradise, Piece By Piece and How To Read A Poem and Start A Poetry Circle. She is the editor of a collection of creative non-fiction, The Private I: Privacy in a Public World and the co-editor of Poetry in Motion: One Hundred Poems from the Subways and Buses.

Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and The Best of the Best American Poetry. A Leon Levy Center Fellowship gave her the chance to transform an essay on Mrs. Delany, "Passion Flowers in Winter" - which was selected by David Foster Wallace for inclusion in The Best American Essays 2007 - into the book that became The Paper Garden.

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The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72 (Hardcover)

By Molly Peacock

$30.00

ISBN-13: 9781608195237
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Bloomsbury USA, 3/2011

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