Air Travel By Clarinda Harriss ISBN 0-9767054-1-9 Poetry Itasca Books · January 2005 6 x 9 · Paperback · 96 pp · Our price     $ 15.00         Quantity   Air Travel consists of 95 pages of poetry on subjects ranging from a Marine’s death by AIDS and other modern/urban events through confrontation of personal ghosts to passionate, sexy, grown-up love poems. “Air Travel reflects a mature and perceptive consciousness: knowing, insightful. It is sometimes a poetic memoir, sometimes a wry objective look at human foibles (her own included). . .celebrating, with memories of life, those who have gone.” -- Jessie Lendennie, Managing Director, Salmon Publishing, Ireland Harriss’ fourth poetry collection reflects a vigorous life of the mind, body and spirit, as well as a lively tension between freedom and formalism in craft, its voice as poignant and pointed, funny and fierce as ever. Clarinda Harriss is a professor of English at Towson University, where she teaches poetry and editing. She is also the long-time editor and director of BrickHouse Books, Inc., the oldest continuously publishing literary press in Maryland. Her previously published books are Air Travel, The Bone Tree, The Night Parrot, License Renewal for the Blind, and Dirty Blue Voice, as well as two academic texts. She is one of the three women featured in For Divas Dance, the most recent publication of the Divas Squad Collective. Her recent awards include Indiana Review's first prize for poetry in 2005, Pagitica Magazine’s first prize for poetry in 2004, and second prize in the 2004 Raymond Carver Fiction Competition. Currently she's editing for publication several books by former prison inmates and completing a collection of short fiction. Harriss spends part of each year in Argentina and is struggling to learn Spanish.

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