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  <about><![CDATA[Liz Beasley holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University and a PhD from the University of Georgia.  She recently relocated to Durham, NC and served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina Central University in 2007-2008.  Currently she works for Duke University Press and teaches creative writing at NCCU.  <br/><br/>Her poems have appeared in a variety of journals, including Pleiades, Green Mountains Review, Arts &amp; Letters, Epoch, and Poetry.  Her first book, _How the Brain Grew Back Its Own History_, won the Bright Hill Press Poetry Award and is available from Bright Hill Press (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://brighthillpress.org">brighthillpress.org</a>) and Small Press Distribution (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://spdbooks.org">spdbooks.org</a>).<br/><br/>  ]]></about>
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  <hometown>Louisville, KY</hometown>
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    <![CDATA[How The Brain Grew Back Its Own History]]>
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    <![CDATA[Liz Beasley's first book, How the Brain Grew Back Its Own History, is a colleciton of spare, image-driven lyrics that explore the intersection of inner and outer worlds. One poem, for instance, meditates on the idea of the hippocampus as both an area in the brain and the scientific name for a seahorse. Subjectivity and objectivity are often at war in the collection, and the poems frequently grapple with the mystery of the body. They explore uncertainties and omissions, and the effects of isolating language from a context; there is a vague terror in the lines, 'It is the new dream,' or 'A woman says beautiful, / looking at nothing.']]>
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