Tolsun Books LLC
Too many questions about strawberries
Key Metrics
- Jen Hirt
- Tolsun Books LLC
- Paperback
- 9781948800143
- 8 X 5.25 X 0.1 inches
- 0.13 pounds
- Poetry > American - General
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Too Many Questions About Strawberries is a chapbook about concern. What are we concerned about? Why? Should we be concerned about this in this way? Hirt of plays with language and sees how it changes, how a poem develops, grows from the needs of the voice of the poem. We live in an age that is a kaleidoscope of concern; sometimes I feel like it cripples us, because we can just keep asking questions about the strawberries instead of buying them. This is a book about living beyond concern.
Author Bio
Jen Hirt is a creative writer who specializes in creative nonfiction essays and book-length memoirs, as well as experimental nonfiction and prose poetry. Her first book, the memoir Under Glass: The Girl with a Thousand Christmas Trees, was published in 2010 and won an emerging writer prize.
She regularly teaches introductory creative writing courses, as well as advanced courses in nonfiction, poetry, expository writing, and social science writing. She is the faculty advisor to From the Fallout Shelter, the campus literary arts magazine, and she is active in the honors program and the graduate communications program. Hirt’s research is focused on the natural world, especially odd encounters with animals, unusual trees, and greenhouses.
Research Interests
- The art of the essay
- 20th century and 21st century creative nonfiction writers
- Trends in award-winning essays
Source: The Pennsylvania State University System
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