Another Woman by Hannah Bonner

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Another Woman by Hannah Bonner

In the tradition of confessional and lyrical poets like Cynthia Cruz, Linda Gregg, Sylvia Plath, and Franz Wright, Hannah Bonner’s Another Woman explores female sexuality, anguish, and abjection within the decline of a romantic relationship as well as through biblical, mythical, or pop cultural figures such as Delilah, Aphrodite, or Karen Carpenter.

Through compressed prose and a fierce attentiveness to the natural landscape, Another Woman depicts the atomization of heartbreak with, what Dwight Garner writes of Frank Stanford’s poetry, a “dirt-flecked” urgency. The collection culminates in new gradations and understandings of what it means to be a woman—and the multiplicity of selves that live within one body. 

 ...Bonner’s debut is a feminist triumph that opens the pathways of consideration for how women transform over the course of their lives. 
 Publishers Weekly's BookLife
 A seductive yet brutally honest poetry collection about infidelity. 
 Kirkus Reviews
 I’ve been waiting for Hannah Bonner’s debut book, Another Woman, for years, and it does not disappoint. A poet of the loud in the quiet, Bonner’s poems are beautiful and exacting, and they don’t shy away from penetrating self-reflection. I admire Bonner’s bravery on the page; in a poem of parting, entitled, “Triumph,” the poet writes, 'Sometimes I am all of it: / sound, beauty, hunger.' Another Woman explores all the others we inhabit in trying to become who we are, moving ultimately to a place of wonder—and love—for the self. 
— Lynn Melnick, author of I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton
 With her exquisitely sensual and razor-sharp debut collection Another Woman, Hannah Bonner has written 'another kind of body.' Pulse, gasp, tangle, flare—Bonner does not hesitate to say Yes again and again—to the shimmering natural world, to the past and present, to the body’s orchard, to desire for its own sake. Invoking other women from Dido to Mary, Bonner’s magnetic poems alchemize loss into love and offer new light to past lives. These poems hang on the 'delicate thread between tenderness and terror,' exploding judgments, expectations, and the familiar boundaries of a self. With a touch of fire that calls to mind Jean Valentine or Saskia Hamilton, these poems quicken and ache, hunger and heal, blossom and bark. The broken heart has never made such a startling garden. The moment I finished Another Woman I immediately began again, never wanting to finish. 
— Elizabeth Metzger, author of Lying In and The Spirit Papers
 Hannah Bonner’s Another Woman is a meditation on the body, love, and desire. The speaker asks, 'When did I first define solitude as standing adjacent to objects without touching?' The poems provide answers in their lush and elegant language from the natural world, to the bedroom, each season’s slip falling to the naked floor. What is ruin to the already ruined, the claimed female body? To be the 'other woman' is to be another woman 'walking into the world with her palms open, accepting nothing but the fire.' Another Woman will leave you breathless, 'close to breaking.' 
— Diannely Antigua, author of Ugly Music
 A book of eros and 'wild risk,' Hannah Bonner's spellbinding debut, Another Woman, conjures 'a water so febrile it is almost fire.' In the aftermath of the end of a love affair, Bonner's speaker wonders tenderly about 'every startled animal' and what it means to be a woman in the world when carnality gives way to grief, shining starlight on the shadows to reveal the white peaches of 'white lies' and knowledge in the face of pain. The speaker in her fever dream takes us deeper into her desire: a dizzying phantasmagory where stars are feet flung out of windows as the 'sun kicks its heels' over the empty storefronts and fields of Arkansas. I am grateful for Bonner's fiercely intimate lyrics of womanhood, sexuality, loss, relief, and survival. Another Woman is hauntingly mesmerizing with poems of searing beauty, stellar power, and lyrical grace. 
— Carlie Hoffman, author of This Alaska
 In this brutal, astounding collection, Bonner casts 'relief across a blameless ground' like seeds begging for growth. In verse that punctures with sparse, aching specificity, Bonner writes with the fervor of a beast under threat: attentive, bare-toothed, unyielding. Like the quaking aftermath of a good fuck, these poems hum an ecstatically offbeat song I never want to be rid of. This is a debut so violent in its beauty, one can't help but tremble, open-mouthed like prey, before it. 
— Spencer Williams, author of TRANZ
 To read this collection is to come home to the self, as well as to the earth. Hannah Bonner reminds us that our bodies, hearts, and minds are destined to emulate the seasons; some parts of us return to the earth only to reemerge stronger and greener in their time, while others are meant to stay buried and support a more fertile future. These evocative poems give voice to that intrinsic connection between womanhood and the earth that we all carry in our bones. 
— Liz Kerin, author of Night’s Edge

Hannah Bonner

Bonner’s criticism has appeared in Cleveland Review of Books, Literary Hub, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Senses of Cinema, The Rumpus, and The Sewanee Review, among others. She is a 2023-2024 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow and a graduate of the University of Iowa’s MFA in creative nonfiction. 

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