The Length of a Clenched Fist

 

“In writing that spans the first eight months of the pandemic and quarantine, Felleman shares a generous range of interests, concerns, and sympathies....You’ll discover poems that have the crisp, chiseled feel of prayers addressing our faith, doubt, grace, and grief.”

–David Duer, author of To Bread (o.p.) (Coffee House Press)

"LA Felleman’s The Length of a Clenched Fist lives in the only habitable places of the early pandemic: crowded grocery tores, bird cam livestreams, wetland trails, borrowed homes, and memories of the Before Times…. these poems fall into step with rhythms of the domestic and natural worlds, the grounding repetitive acts of sweeping floorboards and listening to the calls of sandhill cranes. Under Felleman’s meditative gaze, poetry becomes a practice, too: she observes the seemingly circumscribed world so closely that it begins to shimmer and swell, spilling out over the edges of quarantined life."

=Becca Klaver, author of Ready for the World (Black Lawrence Press)

The Length of a Clenched Fist is available for pre-order at

Finishing Line Press

https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/the-length-of-a-clenched-fist-by-l-a-felleman/

Currently, LA is an accountant at the University of Iowa.  Before that, she was a seminary professor.  Prior to that, she was a pastor.  She credits the Free Generative Writing Workshops, the Midwest Writing Center, and workshops offered through Iowa City Poetry with her growth as a poet.  To give back to the writing community, she organizes a writers open mic at the public library (or via Zoom during pandemics) and serves on the advisory council of Iowa City Poetry.   http://lafelleman.blogspot.com/