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?
- ISBN10 0393086437
- ISBN13 9780393086430
- Publish Date 20 April 2012
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 2 October 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English