Precipice Fruit
Precipice Fruit tells the story of Jenna, a young girl with an autism spectrum diagnosis whose spirit transcends the stigmatizing forces around her. Often pigeon-holed, manhandled, and misunderstood by her doctors and teachers, Jenna blossoms into a young girl with a perspective entirely her own. Different points of view clash against each other in this series of poems—the cold objectivity of the clinician, the private terror and faith of the mother, the punitive decree of the teacher, the spirited self-narration of the child.
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About the Author
Sara Biggs Chaney received her Ph.D. in English in 2008 and currently teaches first-year writing in Dartmouth’s Institute for Writing and Rhetoric. Her first chapbook, Precipice Fruit, was released by ELJ Publications in October, 2013 and her second chapbook, Ann Coulter’s Letter to the Young Poets, is forthcoming from dancing girl press this summer. Sara’s poems and flash fictions have recently appeared (or will soon appear) in Word Riot, Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review, SunDog Lit, Menacing Hedge, Whiskeypaper, and other places. You can catch up with Sara at her blog.