Book Description The Art of Absence explores the complex relationships between lovers, between family members, between friends. What Passanante shows again and again is how the ties that bind can be our comfort, and our despair.

About the Author Joy Passanante is the Associate Director of Creative Writing at the University of Idaho. Her poems, essays, and stories have appeared in numerous magazines, including The Gettysburg Review, Short Story, College English, Xavier Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review. She has won several awards for fiction, poetry, and script writing including two fellowships and a grant from the Idaho Commission on the Arts. A fine-press collection of her poems, Sinning in Italy, was published by Limberlost Press in 1999, and her novel, My Mother’s Lovers (University of Nevada Press), was a finalist for the ForeWord Magazine award for best fiction in 2002. Her stories and essays have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes four times.

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