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Our Lady of the Ruins: Poems
Paperback
Series: Barnard Women Poets Prize
ISBN13: 9780393086430
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Apr 1 2012
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
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?
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