Missing Addresses
About this ebook
who passed away in 2021 after a lifetime devoted to poetry. Her wide-ranging poems reflect on her deep
love of art and philosophy, crystalline remembrances of family, and on the lives of cultural figures
from history. They explore her Jewish heritage, her fierce feminism, and her perception of herself
from an early age as an “outsider.” Missing Addresses evokes our losses, via age and happenstance,
lending insight into the touchstones of our existence: our friends and families, our memories, our
identities.
About the author
Beth Bentley’s award-winning work has been published in dozens of journals and
anthologies. Her previous collections include: Little Fires, The Purely Visible, Philosophical
Investigations, Country of Resemblances, Field of Snow, and Phone Calls from the Dead. Her awards and
honors include: Montalvo Award, 1987; Washington State Governor’s Award for Phone Calls from the Dead
and for Country of Resemblances; Bookseller’s Award for Phone Calls from the Dead; and a National
Endowment of the Arts fellowship, 1976/77. She was a fellow of the NEA in 1978 and that same year read
at the Library of Congress. She took several trips to France in the 1970s while working on
translations of contemporary French women poets. Her play about the Bronte sisters, “Speak, Radiant
Angel,” was produced by Seattle’s Readers’ Theater. She taught poetry in the Northwest and elsewhere
for over 30 years, including UW, Kirkland Arts League, Tacoma Public Schools and Lake Washington
School District, and at the Cornish College of the Arts.
