Valerie Wallace's Critical Reads
Valerie Wallace is the author of House of McQueen, selected by Vievee Francis for the Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry, and the chapbook The Dictators’ Guide to Good Housekeeping (dancing girl press 2011). Her work was chosen by Margaret Atwood for the 2012 Atty Award, and she has received an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award and the San Miguel de Allende Writers Conference Award in Poetry. She earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is Associate Director, Communications for the project Virtue, Happiness, & the Meaning of Life at the University of Chicago and teaches courses and workshops in Chicago and elsewhere. Valerie will discuss House of McQueen on Tuesday, April 10, at 6:00pm.
The Clerk's Tale, by Spencer Reece
What the Living Do, by Marie Howe
The New Black, by Evie Shockley
The Book of Forms, by Lewis Turco
Ravishing DisUnities, edited by Agha Shahid Ali
Olio, by Tyehimba Jess
Brutal Imagination, by Cornelius Eady
Native Guard, by Natasha Tretheway
Stag's Leap, by Sharon Olds
Roget's Thesaurus
About House of McQueen: Selected by Vievee Francis for the Four Way Books Intro Prize, Valerie Wallace’s "House of McQueen" is a glittering debut by an assured new voice. Inhabiting the life and work of Alexander McQueen, Wallace builds a fantastical world using both original language and excerpts drawn from interviews, supermodels, Shakespeare, and more. At turns fierce and vulnerable, here is a collection that leaps from runway to fairytale to street with wild, brilliant grace.
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