Our Lady of the Ruins: Poems by Traci Brimhall

Our Lady of the Ruins: Poems

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Our Lady of the Ruins: Poems by Traci Brimhall

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Our Lady of the Ruins: Poems

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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?

Book Details
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN:
9780393086430
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Authors:
Traci Brimhall
Published Date:
2012-04-01
Language:
English
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About Traci Brimhall

Poet Laureate of Kansas since 2023, Traci Brimhall was born in Little Falls, Minnesota, and holds a BA from Florida State University, an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and a PhD from Western Michigan University. Her debut, Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, and Our Lady of the Ruins (W. W. Norton, 2012) was selected by Carolyn Forché for the Barnard Women Poets Prize. Later collections include Saudade (Copper Canyon Press, 2017) and Love Prodigal (Copper Canyon, 2024). She received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in 2013.

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