Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to welcome local author Taije Silverman to the store to celebrate the publication of her first book of poetry, Houses Are Fields, on Sunday, October 18th, at 3 p.m.

Taije Silverman’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Shenandoah, Ploughshares, Five Points, Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, and other journals. The recipient of the 2005–2007 Emory University Creative Writing Fellowship, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, she is now Assistant Visiting Professor at Ursinus College, outside of Philadelphia. Her first collection of poems, Houses Are Fields, was published by LSU Press in 2009, and selected as the debut book in their Sea Cliff Series. Thrice nominated for the Puschart Prize, she has received the Anais Nin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and her book has just been translated into Italian. Her own translations of Italian poetry are forthcoming in Pleiades.

Houses Are Fields (Paperback)

By Taije Silverman

$17.95

ISBN-13: 9780807134085
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Louisiana State University Press, 5/2009

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