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Locomotive Cathedral
Paperback
Series: The Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention
Publisher Price: $17.95
ISBN13: 9781496240088
Publisher: Backwaters Press
Published: Mar 1 2025
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Bronze Medal for the 2026 IPPY Award
With wit and vulnerability, Brandel France de Bravo explores resilience in the face of climate change and a global pandemic, race, and the concept of a self, all while celebrating the power of breath as baptism on repeat. Whether her inspiration is twelfth-century Buddhist mind-training slogans or the one-footed crow who visits her daily, France de Bravo mines the tension between the human desire for permanence and control, and life's fluid, ungraspable nature. Poem by poem, essay by essay, she builds a temple to the perpetual motion of transformation, the wondrous churn of change and exchange that defines companionship, marriage, and ceding our place on Earth: not dying, but molting.
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