Acclaimed poet Sarah Gorham is probably best known in Louisville as the founder and editor in chief at Sarabande Books, the award-winning literary press that celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. She’s the author of four books of poems - the latest is "Bad Daughter," published in 2011 by Four Way Books - and her work has been honored by fellowships from the Kentucky Arts Council, the prestigious Yaddo and MacDowell arts colonies, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Gorham switched gears for her new book, a collection of essays from University of Georgia Press titled “Study in Perfect,” which won the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews calls the book "a contemplative, lyrical, splendid collection." WFPL’s Erin Keane sat down with Gorham to talk about the elusive and contradictory nature of perfection and poetic license in the lyric essay form.
