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Appetite for the Divine Paperback – April 15, 2010

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Poetry. "Christine Gelineau has invented a new cosmology in her fascinating, ambitious, multi-part poem, APPETITE FOR THE DIVINE. Questioning contemporary warfare and eco-destruction while praising the green fuse in all that lives, this poet interrogates, celebrates, and re-calibrates our spiritual and cultural values. Gelineau models for us a marvelously poly-voiced poetry, an associative, gently narrative puzzle which allows her to pick through scenes of destruction and illumination toward an idea of a core of holiness in our 21st-century existence. In APPETITE FOR THE DIVINE, Gelineau makes time into the sublime and turns space into grace"--Molly Peacock.
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Christine Gelineau's first full-length collection, REMORSELESS LOYALTY, won the Richard Snyder Publication Prize and was published by Ashland Poetry Press in 2006. The book was subsequently nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award by David St. John. Gelineau is also the author of APPETITE FOR THE DIVINE (Ashland Poetry Press, 2010) and two chapbooks of poetry, North American Song Line and In the Greenwood World (both from Foothills Publishing). Her poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared widely. Gelineau is the associate director of the Binghamton Center for Writers, State University of New York. She teaches literature and creative writing at Binghamton University and also teaches in the low-residency MA/MFA in Writing Program at Wilkes University. She and her husband raise Morgan horses under the Hartland prefix on a farm in upstate New York.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ashland Poetry Press (April 15, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 108 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0912592680
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0912592688
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.25 x 8.75 inches
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Christine Gelineau lives on a farm in upstate New York where she and her husband raise Morgan horses. Her poetry collections include CRAVE, from NYQ Books, as well as APPETITE FOR THE DIVINE and REMORSELESS LOYALTY, both from Ashland Poetry Press. With Jack B. Bedell she is editor of the anthology FRENCH CONNECTIONS: A GATHERING OF FRANCO-AMERICAN POETS. Gelineau is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize, the Richard Snyder Publication Prize, and Editor's Choice for the Robert McGovern Award. She teaches at Binghamton University, where she is Associate Director of the Creative Writing Program and coordinator of the Readers’ Series. She also teaches poetry and creative nonfiction in the low-residency graduate writing program at Wilkes University.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2011
    "Appetite for the Divine" reminds me of Adrienne Rich's "From an Atlas of the Difficult World." It goes into universal themes of birth and death, the animal and the human, biography and topology with its cosmic dives of imagination into the unconscious. Gelineau zooms in on mortality as our common human lot and then looks at specific tragedy in order to make us actively engage with this question, "Do we experience death as anything except an impact?/dropping through a darkness whose polestar was the flames consuming what had been their plane/Did they think they had already died?"

    She looks at a chaos as a form of the divine, bound with, not separate from humankind's feeble attempts to achieve the rational: "Generous and vital/chaos seeks coming apart and coming together/equally urgently/make and re-make"

    She writes:"The butterflies are drying/Their newly opened wings in the sun"

    Then with pathos she addresses the anxiety of their becoming: "If cognition were possible/wouldn't terror be the first response/to the pageantry of wings grown from your back tugging/lifting you into the wind."

    Is true divinity found within chaos? Is peace a form of struggle? These were the questions Gelineau's work has left me asking days later.
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