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Anne Champion

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Anne Champion is the author of She Saints & Holy Profanities (Quarterly West, 2019), The Good Girl is Always a Ghost (Black Lawrence Press, 2018), Book of Levitations (Trembling Pillow Press, 2019), Reluctant Mistress (Gold Wake Press, 2013), and The Dark Length Home (Noctuary Press, 2017). Her work appears in Verse Daily, diode, Tupelo Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, Salamander, New South, Redivider, PANK Magazine, and elsewhere. She was a 2009 Academy of American Poets Prize recipient, a 2016 Best of the Net winner, and a Barbara Deming Memorial Grant recipient. She received her MFA in poetry from Emerson College.

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Average rating: 4.56 · 117 ratings · 24 reviews · 13 distinct works

	The Good Girl Is Always a Ghost 4.69 avg rating — 32 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reluctant Mistress 4.41 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Book of Levitations by Jenny Sadre-Orafai (Goodreads Author), Anne Champion (Goodreads Author) 4.93 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	She Saints & Holy Profanities 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Menacing Hedge: A Limited Edition Anthology for AWP 2017 by Kelly Boyker (Editor), Amanda Gowin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jasmine An (Contributor) 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This is a Story About Ghosts: A Memoir of Borderline Personality Disorder 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hunted Carrion: Sonnets to a Stalker it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cluster B Cluster F***: Personal Essays on Borderlines, Histrionics, Narcissists, & Sociopaths it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Book of Shadows: An 80-Day Guided Journal to Face Your Shadows and Heal Generational Trauma 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

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20 years later rereading this book, and it still slaps. When I first read it, I was a dewy-eyed 19 year old poet, and the words resonated like a gong. Something trembled long and loud inside me. And then I clutched my copy standing in line to meet he ...more
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“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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“Some of the world's blackest holes are out
in the open for anyone to see....”
― Joe Sacco, Palestine

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“To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.”
― Thomas Ligotti

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“A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

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“People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

tags: discomfort, force-of-nature, marriage, matrimony, nature, pleasure, self-deception

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