Interpretive Work

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(Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2008): Interpretive Work explores the collision of natural history, work, queerness, and family, reaching toward a moment where one finds "this unsettlement, / this beauty applauded at last."

From the first, we know we're in strange hands... Bradfield is such a deft naturalist, with a keen eye for the queer details of the "ass-bastard gorgeous" varieties of nature, human and non-human. Bradfield's poems delight in the tricks of language and nature.
        —from the San Francisco Chronicle

An important new voice... she brings her scientist's accuracy and artist's lyricism to poems on our lives, our loves, our work.
        —from The Women's Review of Books

You'll come away from Interpretive Work feeling inspired and illuminated. You'll want to fall, headfirst, deeply in love with the world and with someone in it, knowing you'll get your heart broken time and time again, knowing it will be worth it.
        —from Poemeleon

...[Bradfield] asserts the trained eye of a naturalist to reveal the mirrored and unprecedented likeness of the botanical, animal and human worlds. Her breathless, occasionally exasperated insights detonate our own mistaken identity of sight.
        —from Bookslut

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Projects

Editing, collaboration, and generally finding new ways to share and disseminate poems is part and parcel of this poet's creative life.

Hence, Broadsided Press
(www.broadsidedpress.org).
Broadsided is a grassroots, virtual, collaborative press started in late 2005 to put literature and art on the streets.
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Bio

Elizabeth Bradfield grew up in Tacoma, Washington and has lived on Cape Cod and in Alaska. She holds an MFA from the University of Alaska, Anchorage and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. When not writing, she works as a naturalist and web designer.

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