# Bright Shade - Hardcover

by **Chelsea Harlan** (Author), **Jericho Brown** (Introduction by)

**Winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Award, selected by  
Pulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown.**

_Bright Shade_ is an appreciation of the wild woods, the rolling hills, the Appalachian air, and the little rivers that were the setting of Chelsea Harlan's upbringing. The poems speak through the liminal space between the body and its relationships to other bodies, and the human relationship with nature--and so climate change is, inevitably, part of this book's undercurrent of grief. As the author navigates the high highs and the low lows of delight and despair, _Bright Shade_ articulates the wonder that accompanies sadness and the sadness that accompanies joy. Chelsea Harlan's work is as melancholic as it is humorous, indeed bittersweet, and a little bit strange in just the right way.  

### Author Biography

**Chelsea Harlan** was born and raised in Appalachia. She holds  
a BA in Literature and Visual Art from Bennington College, as well as an MFA in  
Poetry from Brooklyn College. Her chapbook _Mummy,_ written in collaboration with  
London-based painter Daisy Parris, was released by Montez Press in 2019, and  
her chapbook _Country Music_ was released from Two Plum Press. She received the  
2021 Robert Watson Literary Award from _The Greensboro Review_ for her poem "Some  
Sunlight," and she received the 2019-2020 Mikrokosmos Poetry Prize for her poem  
"Grimaldo's Chair," selected by sam sax.

**Number of Pages:** 96

**Dimensions:** 0.7 x 9.1 x 6 IN

**Publication Date:** October 25, 2022

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