Carol Muske-Dukes is a poet, critical essayist, and fiction author. Her poetry collection, Sparrow: Poems, a haunting elegy for her late husband, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her new collection, Twin Cities (Penguin Books), is a book of poems about how things double: by reflection, by reproduction, by severance. The poems embark from the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, divided by a legendary river, and move on to the parallel histories of a life lived and a life imagined – and the random intersection of the two. Lit by loss, these moving poems navigate between the poles of love and grief, curse and blessing, and abandonment and rescue.
January 14, 2025
Muske-Dukes, Carol
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Carol Muske-Dukes is a poet, critical essayist, and fiction author. Her poetry collection, Sparrow: Poems, a haunting elegy for her late husband, was a