Gillian Conoley, poetry professor, has released her new book, A Little More Red Sun on the Human, published by Nightboat Books. She is currently on sabbatical but will be busy promoting the book throughout the fall and into the spring. Gillian is a Shelley Memorial Award winner from the Poetry Society of America.
Gillian Conoley’s poems "assemble a shockingly varied body of work, comprising narrative, lyric, and fragmented forms. Her coruscating vibrant poems are informed by visual art and film, political engagement and playful linguistic constructions. Throughout, one can trace Conoley’s obsessions and concerns: democracy, metaphysics, motherhood,
A Little More Red Sun on the Human was recently praised by San Francisco poet Tongo Eisen-Martin:
"Conoley’s poems have a singular energy like an organ solo or a shotgun resorting to storytelling. She adds tool handles to our histories; a set list for our waking souls. And an instrument of self-reflection that a landscape might ponder itself with. On her page, our natures get away with nothing. All cradled by a ruthlessly loving dance of language; in her poems we meet our twins."
Read a selection (“Borderlands”) from Gillian Conoley’s new book