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NOTES
These poems are from the manuscript I'm currently working on—from a section titled
"The Zygote Epistles." These epistles, addressed to incipient life (alternatively referred to
as "Zygote" and "Life Speck"), meditate on the potentially human self as well as overall
personhood--rapidly being altered by techniques of power—while fixing what we think to
be human within other nexus of animal and earthbound "transitionals."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Diane Raptosh's fourth book of
poetry, American Amnesiac
(Etruscan Press) was longlisted for
the 2013 National Book Award and
was a finalist for the Housatonic
Book Award. The recipient of three
fellowships in literature from the
Idaho Commission on the Arts, she
served as the Boise Poet Laureate
(2013) as well as the Idaho Writer-in-Residence (2013-2016), the highest literary honor
in the state. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies in
the U.S. and Canada. A highly active ambassador for poetry, she has given poetry
workshops everywhere from riverbanks to maximum-security prisons. She teaches
creative writing and runs the program in Criminal Justice/Prison Studies at The College
of Idaho. Her most recent collection of poems, Human Directional, was released by
Etruscan Press in Fall 2016. Her website:
www.dianeraptosh.com
