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Lynnell Edwards

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http://www.lynnelledwards.com

genre

Poetry, Literature & Fiction

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March 2008

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Lynnell Major Edwards is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, Covet (2011) The Highwayman’s Wife and The Farmer's Daughter, (Red Hen Press, 2007, 2003). Her work has appeared on Verse Daily and in numerous literary journals including: Poems & Plays, Southern Poetry Review, The Los Angeles Review, Poetry East, and Dos Passos Review. She is a regular reviewer for The Georgia Review, and Pleiades. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky where she is on the faculty at Spalding University. She received her doctorate in English at the University of Louisville, her undergraduate degree at Centre College in Kentucky, and is the recipient of a 2007 Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council. She is also president of Louisvill...more

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Books by Lynnell Edwards

Average rating: 4.62 · 21 ratings · 6 reviews · 3 distinct works

	HIGHWAYMAN'S WIFE, THE 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	FARMER'S DAUGHTER, THE 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Covet 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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Lynnell is currently reading:

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

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Lynnell said: "I read this the first time when I was 22 or so; it's a whole other book twenty years later. Oh Anna! Oh Vronksy! Like the Titanic going down in a great wake of sorrow and ice... "

Jan 21, 2010 10:39am · see review

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Lynnell gave to: The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men by Adam Prince (Goodreads Author) read in May, 2012	My rating:
Adam read from his new release for us at InKY in Louisville -- a terrific preview for a terrific book. He has a compelling, unique voice; these are honest stories that beautifully redeem the complicated lives of ordinary men. Fantastic!
May 19, 2012 07:20am · see review
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Lynnell gave to: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse	My rating:
Jan 21, 2010 10:46am
Lynnell gave to: Wind in a Box by Terrance Hayes read in January, 2010	My rating:
Jan 21, 2010 10:41am
Lynnell is currently reading: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy	My rating:
I read this the first time when I was 22 or so; it's a whole other book twenty years later. Oh Anna! Oh Vronksy! Like the Titanic going down in a great wake of sorrow and ice...
Jan 21, 2010 10:39am · see review
Lynnell gave to: Girl Trouble: Stories by Holly Goddard Jones read in December, 2009	My rating:
Dec 05, 2009 09:32am
Lynnell is on page 30 of 112 of Wind in a Box Wind in a Box by Terrance Hayes progress:	My rating:
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Lynnell gave to: The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers	My rating:
I read this as part of my effort to both stay up with what my two teenage boys are assigned to read, and also make a dent in the vast forest of books I should know and don't. Simply put, this was stunning. Left me in tears. I was particularly struck...more
Nov 04, 2009 05:24am · see review
Lynnell said "yes" to attending the event: interview in Rain Taxi date: January 08, 2009 12:11PM location: Rain Taxi online, latest issue, Minneapolis, MN, The United States description: An interview of some length, very gratifying, in a place I care about. Lynnell said: I checked it out; nice interview!
Jan 08, 2009 06:43pm