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Brettanomyces is a memoir of time spent seeking the self in the marginal lands of America's agrarian foundations. From the dry, serrated edges of the New Mexican high desert, to the verdant tranquility of Virginia's young vineyards, these poems tell the story of looking for home amidst a sea of disparate, yet inextricably beautiful vistas. Connecting each work is a sense of food-as-place, and place-as-self. The making of wine becomes an act of connection and desire, while dry plateau treks become lenses of reflective depth, drawing parallels to mundane, modern problems. These poems speak to the emotive side of sustainability as it pertains to our food systems, to the brokenhearted toil of industrial production, and to the very literal cultural genocide of colonial advancement.
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Brettanomyces tells the story of simple things. It gives witness to the bevies of marginality surrounding agrarian idealism, from the emotional weight of tribalized commercial farming, to the eroded beauty of cultural collapse in the drylands of the Southwest. It teases out the line between what is essential and what is superfluous in the sysygy of industrialized food production. Informed by time spent working the vines of Virignia's burgeoning vineyards, to walking the bare escarpments of New Mexico's cattle land, this is a record of relationships and circumstance. Her poems have been published individually in the 2018 NoVa Bards Anthology and the 2016 Montpelier Poetry Month Festival.
