Our Lady of the Ruins: Poems

by Traci Brimhall and Elle Gonzalez Rose

Book Overview

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
...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393086437
• ISBN13: 9780393086430
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.1"