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EVERY TIME A KNOT IS UNDONE, A GOD IS RELEASED

Barbara Chase-Riboud

Collected and New Poems, 1974-2011

Barbara Chase-Riboud is a distinguished poet, winner of the Carl Sandburg Poetry Prize for Best American Poet. She received a knighthood in Arts and Letters from the French government in 1996, the same year as poet Seamus Heaney.

Well-known as a world class sculptor, Barbara Chase-Riboud has had personal exhibitions in museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art Paris, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Walters Museum and has exhibited in museums like The British Museum, London, MOMA New York, The Whitney Museum, New York, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, The Smithsonian, Washington D.C. and The Ontario National Gallery. She is the recipient of many awards, fellowship and honorary doctorates for both her poetry and her sculpting.

This volume is consists of 160 poems of which 57 have not previously been published. A prolific writer Chase-Riboud has published six historical novels, several of them prize-winning best sellers including the iconic “Sally Hemings” for which she received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Best Novel written an American woman in 1979. She received the American Library Association's Black Caucus Award for Best Fiction for “Hottentot Venus” in 2004.
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Published by Seven Stories Press

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The livingness of the body is in these poems the body's vision and wisdom and some of them do the mouth good to say. Barbara Chase-Riboud comes at you whole, all of her at once, the way only a real talent makes possible. - Arthur Miller

22 Exciting Titles for Poetry Lovers Everywhere: "Not surprisingly, what impresses is the poetry's push and power, combined with fierce historical/political awareness." Read more...

Barbara Chase-Riboud is a consummate artist and as such, she offers us without judgment, living extremes. She invites the reader to consider if resistance and submission can be employed as instruments to live through hazardous times in a startling book. - Maya Angelou

The poems, like the sculpture, are a lucid reflection of their creator: tensile strength tempered with softness. Poetry, as she sees it, is a natural extension a trip from one three dimensional world to another.

Your poem of Scorpios is so beautiful; I think I'll frame it here in my own secret place. I'm giving your book to the people I love best for Christmas with much love – and gratitude for giving so much of yourself – for making us so happy. - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis