Price of Scarlet - Poems

A honeycomb long vacated by honeybees still possesses an "echo of the swarm, / a lingering song." Living things are made and make themselves: "My bones came first. / Like long needles, / they knitted muscle / and tendon / and tissue and skin. / Filled themselves / with marrow."
In her debut collection, Brianna Noll fuses the scientific and fantastic, posing probing questions that explore the paradoxes of experience. Interweaving themes of creation, art, and nat

About the author

Brianna Noll is a postdoctoral fellow in teaching and mentoring in the Honors College at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2013, she helped found the literary magazine, The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought, for which she serves as poetry editor.

Summary

/ Like long needles, / they knitted muscle / and tendon / and tissue and skin. / Filled themselves / with marrow."In her debut collection, Brianna Noll fuses the scientific and fantastic, posing probing questions that explore the paradoxes of experience.

Product details

• Authors: Brianna Noll
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780813168982
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-6898-2
• No. of pages: 118
• Series: University Press of Kentucky N; University Press of Kentucky N
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama