Background
Bruce, Debra was born on April 4, 1951 in Bristol, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of Willard Arthur Bruce and Mary Elizabeth Conlin.
(This is a book about desire: hunger for food and for the ...)
This is a book about desire: hunger for food and for the sensuality of physical life, for emotional communion, and for an under- standing of the full meaning of life. ln the opening poem, an Athenian wife in the 5th century B.C. speaks with both rage and sex- ual longing for her indifferent, philandering husband, in another, a woman breaks a fam- ily taboo in seeking to know why her aging aunt never married, in another, an old woman in a nursing home tries to ask a young priest why Cod keeps her alive, lt is also a book about forms; the forms and rituals of the human body, of food, flowers, and weather, and the forms in na- ture that continually break out of themselves while our own emotional lives are held in check, while one by one wives, mothers, sisters, daughters, and lovers experience sudden hunger to make contact, to under- stand. This book is about the tension be- tween that hunger and the forms that try to contain it' That tension, skillfully balanced by one of the most exciting poets of her generation, gives life to the poems themselves.
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Bruce, Debra was born on April 4, 1951 in Bristol, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of Willard Arthur Bruce and Mary Elizabeth Conlin.
Bachelor summa cum laude, University Massachusetts, 1974. Master of Arts, Brown University, 1976. Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa, 1978.
Instructor English Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, 1978-1984. Professor English Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, since 1984.
(This is a book about desire: hunger for food and for the ...)
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Member Academy American Poets, Associated Writing Programs, Poetry Society of America (Gustave Davidson award 1989).
Married Rick Kinnebrew, August 21, 1981. 1 child, Kevin Kinnebrew.