Intimate, observant, and unflinchingly honest, The Year of No Mistakes is Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz's tribute to the broken heart. Aptowicz's sixth poetry collection chronicles the author's story as she leaves New York City, her home of fourteen years, and bears witness to the unravelling of Aptowicz's decade-long relationship. Along the way, Aptowicz explores love, nostalgia, grief, desire, envy and hope in poems that showcase her emblematic funny and heartbreaking style. Stripped down, open, and intimate, this collection continues Aptowicz's tradition of engaging and auto-biographical work with new favorites like "Op-Ed for the Sad Sack Review," "Not Doing Something Wrong isn't the Same as Doing Something Right," and "December." For a poet already known for her honesty, The Year of No Mistakes shines with brave vulnerability. It is a triumph that will push even the most stubbornly busted heart back into the light.

Author: Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing
Published: 10/05/2013
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.60w x 0.29d
ISBN: 9781938912344

About the Author
Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe: - Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz is an American poet who was recently awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. She is the author of five books of poetry, including the recently released Everything is Everthing (Write Bloody Publishing), as well as the canonical slam history, Words in Your Face (Soft Skull Press), which U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins wrote leaves no doubt that the slam poetry scene has achieved legitimacy and taken its rightful place on the map of contemporary literature. Recent awards: U Penn residency and Amy Clampitt Residency.