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    April Bernard

    April Bernard is the author of five previous poetry collections and two novels. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. The recipient of a Walt Whitman Award, the Stover Memorial Prize in Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Whitney Humanities Center, she lives in Upstate New York and teaches at Skidmore College and the Bennington College MFA writing seminars.

    April Bernard

    April Bernard is the author of five previous poetry collections and two novels. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. The recipient of a Walt Whitman Award, the Stover Memorial Prize in Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Whitney Humanities Center, she lives in Upstate New York and teaches at Skidmore College and the Bennington College MFA writing seminars.

    Books by April Bernard

    • Psalms: Poems

      April Bernard

      Paperback, 1995

      Moving easily between high and low diction, evoking at once the language of the King James Bible and the sharp psalms of Bertolt Brecht, these lyrics offer a spirituality rooted in the daunting...

    • Swan Electric: Poems

      April Bernard

      Paperback, 2004

      "Bernard has written a gorgeous, tough, haunting book."—Frank Bidart

    • Romanticism: Poems

      April Bernard

      Hardback, 2009

      A new collection from “a poet of obvious gifts and power and ambition, unsparing and brilliant” (W. S. Merwin).

    • Pirate Jenny: A Novel

      April Bernard

      Paperback, 2008

    • Romanticism: Poems

      April Bernard

      Paperback, 2011

      "In Romanticism, the untrammeled Romantic in us struggles for expression in Art. The winner-no question-is the reader."—New Haven Review

    • Romanticism: Poems

      April Bernard

      E Book, 2012

      "In Romanticism, the untrammeled Romantic in us struggles for expression in Art. The winner-no question-is the reader."—New Haven Review

    • Swan Electric: Poems

      April Bernard

      E Book, 2013

      "Bernard has written a gorgeous, tough, haunting book."—Frank Bidart

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