Traci Brimhall. Norton, $15.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-393-08643-0
Battlefields, childbeds, forests of wolves and hanged men, pious sailors, mysterious saints, “a warship, disarmed in the desert, waiting for the flood”: all these figures, characters and scenarios populate the busy, evocative, Barnard Prize–winning...
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Traci Brimhall. Copper Canyon, , $16 ISBN 978-1-55659-517-2
Heartache begets mysticism and mythmaking in this spellbinding collection of narrative verse from Brimhall (Our Lady of the Ruins) about miracles, curses, and the stories people tell to come to terms with their experiences. Brimhall’s amalgamation...
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Traci Brimhall. Copper Canyon, $17 ISBN 978-1-55659-580-6
The transporting fourth book from Brimhall (Saudade) takes reader to a parallel world, a landscape that terrifies. In the Land of Nod, which she describes as “that biblical exile of Cain and the drifting space of dream in lullabies” and “a landscape
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Traci Brimhall. Copper Canyon, $17 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-55659-702-2
Love, divorce, illness, and grief are at the center of Brimhall’s expansive and moving fifth collection (after Come the Slumberless to the land of Nod). The title poem is among the book’s most evocative, framing love as something that, like the...
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