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Acts of Contortion
Anna George Meek
Winner of the 2002 Brittingham Prize
in Poetry
Selected by Edward Hirsch
In poems that are by turns witty, lush, and unflinching, Acts
of Contortion explores the gestures of both hurtfulness and
compassion. Whether set in a shelter for battered women, in the
midst of a political demonstration, or at the center of an orchestra,
the poems pursue the place of language in an injurious world.
The political conscience at work is feminist, pacifist, and at
odds with itself. Anna George Meek finds that the brutal and
the compassionate are sometimes indistinguishable, born of our
need to make contact outside of ourselves. These gestures—of
music, of touch, of poetry—appear in the poems as the violin,
domestic abuse, and words to comfort a woman in pain.
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 September 2002
92 pp. 6 x 9
ISBN 0-299-18260-6
Cloth $19.95 s
ISBN 0-299-18264-9
Paper $12.95 t
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