Mirth

Overview

In MIRTH, New York native Linda Russo "...speaks for and to this 'girl cold' spacetime, in blazes and remedies, with mirthscholarly and civic, this work divines"Elizabeth Treadwell. "*Mirth* (read: not 'comedy' nor 'tragedy') is an exhausted Empire's posturbanity exposed. How much can we afford to guard (or not guard), and how much should we gamble ourselves out to anyone's game on the street. Linda Russo doesn't so much 'experiment' as throw down a viable metrics for every act"Rodrigo Toscano

Author Biography

A native of New York, and graduate of the Poetics Program at the State University of New York in Buffalo, Russo has published some 8 books of poetry, and has been an active creator of the current "ecopoetics" movement, yet her practice embraces both a physical and spiritual connection to the earth, through unique innovations in language. She currently teaches Poetry at Washington State University.