The Branches, The Axe, The Missing - Paperback

by Charlotte Pence (Author)

"In THE BRANCHES, THE AXE, THE MISSING, Charlotte Pence goes beyond situating the personal within the contexts of science and history; she instead finely mortises the evolution of the human form with that of her own poetic form."-Claudia Emerson

"THE BRANCHES, THE AXE, THE MISSING is remarkable not only for its original way of handling love and loss, but for its compassionate vision as it delves into our human origins. Charlotte Pence has written an exquisite narrative charged with lyric force that builds, section by section, into a work of understated beauty and power."-John Skoyles

Author Biography

Charlotte Pence: Pence's poetry has received the Discovered Voices award, an individual artist commission from Tennessee, and three Pushcart nominations. She has been published in "North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review Online" and many other journals. In this past year, she received her Ph.D. in English and published "Weaves a Clear Night," which won the Flying Trout chapbook prize, and "The Poetics of American Song Lyrics," an essay collection that features work by prominent poets on the similarities and differences between poetry and songs. She is married to the fiction writer Adam Prince and currently lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.