Our Lady Of The Ruins: Poems

by Traci Brimhall

2021-06-03 02:57:47

Poetry for the new century: awake to the world, spiritually profound, and radiant with lyric intelligence. —Carolyn ForchéWinner of the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, Our Lady of the Ruins tracks a group of women through their pilgrim... Read more
Poetry for the new century: awake to the world, spiritually profound, and radiant with lyric intelligence. —Carolyn ForchéWinner of the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, Our Lady of the Ruins tracks a group of women through their pilgrimage in a mid-apocalyptic world.  Exploring war, plagues, and the search for a new God in exile, these poems create a chorus of wanderers haunted by empire, God, and personal trauma.from “Hysteria: A Requiem”Now, in the last world, we bury nightingales     beneath the floor.     Trackers with their ears to the ground listen                                        for angels approaching. Where is the saint,              mortally torn and wearing a hood of stars,     bearing her own redemption? Less

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