Forage: (Whitebird Chapbook, No. 5) by JoAnn Balingit (Out of Print)

Out of print title

Poet JoAnn Balingit has been named PoetLaureate of Delaware for the year 2008 

This limited edition chapbook has been hand-stitched, numbered and signed by the author, dated October 2011.
We only have 4 copies of this out of print title and they are numbered 315, 316, 317 and 318.

Forage is the winner of the 2010-2011 Whitebird Chapbook Prize from Wings Press.
In leaflight, earthlight, JoAnn Balingit composes poems that forage beautifully to find what will suffice.
"Arthur Sze, author of The Redshifting Web and The Ginkgo Light JoAnn Balingit's
Forage is a passionate and heartbreaking collection. Often grounded in the natural world, Balingit's lush imagery and sure music reverberate throughout these poems. Her prosody is as crisp and unflinching as Sylvia Plath's in lines like my mother glints like a polished shield. I am smitten by this small collection of poems that explodes from a huge heart foraging through a complex family history (Filipino/ Anglo) punctuated by misunderstanding, loss and struggle, and arriving at what we call love, then finally, grace. Pamela Uschuk, author of Crazy Love
Whether JoAnn Balingit is singing the blues about her lost Philippine ancestry or weaving a love song to a muskrat or catching the upswing of a jazzy double entendre, this book is a delight to read. Balingit has a gift for metaphor and a keen eye for what is strange and arresting in everyday life. Forage is an accomplished debut." -Jeanne Murray Walker, author of New Tracks, Night Falling

About the Author
Born in Columbus, Ohio and grew up in Lakeland, Florida, where her Filipino father and German American mother settled their family of ten at the time, after moving them nine times in nine years. From 2008 to 2015, she served as Delaware's poet laureate. She gave readings and taught classes across the state, coordinated readings and writing conferences, and created opportunities for the state's writers to gather and be recognized.

Shipping Weight : 12.6 ounces
Paperback : 38 pages
ISBN-10 : 091672776-9
ISBN-13 : 978-09-1-672776-5
Publisher : San Antonio, Texas: Wings Press (January 1, 2011)