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| Photo credit: Marion
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René
Steinke
Holy
Skirts
William
Morrow & Co.
A
colorful imagining of the real-life Baroness
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s turbulent
story of love, marriage, poetry and art in the
early 1900s, using actual incidents from her
life.
René
Steinke is the author of The Fires.
She is the editor in chief of The Literary
Review and teaches creative writing at
Fairleigh Dickinson University. She lives in
Brooklyn, New York.
Judges' Citation
A delightful novel
in myriad ways but none more than in the feast
of language it offers us and a heroine who is
both guileless and irresistible. In this fictional
rendering of the life of poet and performance
artist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven,
René Steinke has resurrected a remarkable
woman and her times with vivid, sensual detail.
She also unflinchingly addresses the questions:
How is art made? At what cost? Why does it matter?
Her explorations go to the heart of feminism
and modernity. |
