Devoted Creatures

$19.95

by Bill Van Every

What Bill Van Every does very well is get your attention. These fresh and original poems reach out and grab unsuspecting readers, luring them in with deceptively simple and spontaneous verse, then touching them with the deep emotional resonance that lurks beneath. Widely published in the literary journals Asheville Review, Colorado Review, Interim, and Sow’s Ear, and chosen by Thomas Lux for the Tupelo Judge’s Prize, Bill Van Every is a poet that cannot be denied. He is already garnering national recognition, and is poised to be a bright and totally unique voice on the literary scene.

by Bill Van Every

What Bill Van Every does very well is get your attention. These fresh and original poems reach out and grab unsuspecting readers, luring them in with deceptively simple and spontaneous verse, then touching them with the deep emotional resonance that lurks beneath. Widely published in the literary journals Asheville Review, Colorado Review, Interim, and Sow’s Ear, and chosen by Thomas Lux for the Tupelo Judge’s Prize, Bill Van Every is a poet that cannot be denied. He is already garnering national recognition, and is poised to be a bright and totally unique voice on the literary scene.

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About the Author

Bill Van Every was born on June 20, 1964, in Charlotte, North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Arizona in 1994, and a Master of Fine Arts from The Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College in 1997. He has published poems in The Asheville Review, The Colorado Review, Interim, Sow’s Ear, The Miranda Station Review, and Persona. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and his book length manuscript was a finalist for the 1998 Breadloaf/Bakeless Literary Prize and the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize sponsored by Story Line Press. He has served as a regional judge for The River of Words Project. Bill lives with his wife Kerry and daughter, Stella, in the Blue Ridge mountains of western North Carolina.

Advanced Praise

“There’s a directness here which comes straight from the unmediated gut, and there’s a spiritual ferocity, too, which cuts the psyche open and exposes the wild, aching human heart. Like a true original, Bill Van Every has devised his own poetic grammar of truth, and he speaks it with disturbing, hilarious clarity.”—Tony Hoagland

Kathryn Stripling Byer, poet laureate of North Carolina, chose Devoted Creatures as the featured book of poetry for the month of July, 2005. www.ncarts.org

The Charlotte Observer reviewed Devoted Creatures in the February 1, 2004 issue.

Cosmic Debris reviewed Devoted Creatures online.

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-932195-06-4