Eleanor Boudreau is a poet who has worked as a dry-cleaner and as a radio reporter. Her poems have appeared in
American Poetry Review,
Tin House,
Barrow Street,
Waxwing,
Willow Springs,
FIELD,
Copper Nickel, and other journals. Currently, she is finishing her PhD and teaching creative writing at Florida State University.
Boudreau's first book,
Earnest, Earnest? (2020), won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.
At Electric Lit she tagged ten books about doomed love, including:
Crush by Richard Siken
“The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell,” writes Richard Siken, “Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.” And it is at breakneck pace that the lovers in Siken’s poems come together and split apart. Before he wrote Crush, Siken’s boyfriend died in a car accident, but that loss is transmuted in the book, so the lovers are torn apart for different reasons across the three sections—sometimes the cause is death, sometimes choice, but the result is always heartbreak.
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--Marshal Zeringue
Waxwing, Willow Springs, FIELD, Copper Nickel, and other journals. Currently, she is finishing her PhD and teaching creative writing at Florida State University.
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