Sharon Kraus Alice James Poetry Cooperative Generation by Sharon Kraus Sharon Kraus was born in Chicago and earned her M.A. in Creative Writing from New York University. Her poems have appeared in TriQuarterly, Agni, Prairie Schooner, The Mississippi Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Southern Poetry Review, Northeast Corridor, and other journals. A Journal of Literature and Art , a scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and other awards.
Generation maps the survival of a traumatic childhood.
Kraus masters the toxic fall-out of abusive experiences by rendering them fiercely meaningful, almost as a dance or a biblical drama. It is an American life more terrible than we are accustomed to seeing, but one that reveals unexpected complexity in the world of K-Marts and bowling alleys, a vision that tolerates contradictions that will never be resolved. Sensual, passionate, earthly and unearthly together, Sharon Kraus's work brings a fierce grief up into the same daylight of her words. Raw, rangy, incantory creatures who sing of the dark side of the human family, of survival and what comes after. But if one is determined to feel deeply, all emotions must register.