Whose Cries Are Not Music - Paperback

by Linda Benninghoff (Author)

In Benninghoff's Whose Cries Are Not Music she asks "Don't we in dying reveal who we are?" With a steadily dealt hand, somewhere east, in a "tinseled diner" she reveals fortune's deck of splintered seasons; the stray surprise: deer's blank eyes, a summer gull's pierced solitude. These poems "shine brightly. They take the stars away." Maureen Alsop Linda Bennninghoff is scrupulously attentive to the underpinnings of living one's life, whether she's watching gulls filling the empty sky like numberless dreams ("Gulls") or capturing the isolation and tenuous connections of relationships, to absorb the many facets of the human condition and give it back to the world with lyric precision. Her work runs wide and deep. Barbara Southard

Author Biography

Linda Benninghoff is published in numerous magazines, most recently Canary: a Journal of the Environmental Crisis, OCHO, Oranges and Sardines and Agenda. She has published 5 chapbooks and won a chapbook contest at Kritya in India. She graduated with honors from Johns Hopkins University where she was an English major. She has a MA in English with an emphasis on creative writing from Stony Brook. She is former assistant poetry editor at womenwriters.net, and was shortlisted for the Cinnamon Press Prize in poetry.