Our Lady of the Ruins - Poems

Winner 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?

About the author

Traci Brimhall's first book, Rookery, was a finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year Award. A doctoral student at Western Michigan University, she lives in Kalamazoo.

Summary

"Poetry for the new century: awake to the world, spiritually profound, and radiant with lyric intelligence." —Carolyn Forché

Product details

• Authors: Raci Brimhall, Traci Brimhall, Robert Hazel
• Publisher: Norton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2012
• EAN: 9780393086430
• ISBN: 978-0-393-08643-0
• No. of pages: 96
• Weight: 136 g
• Series: Barnard Women Poets Prize; Barnard Women Poets Prize
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama