- 90 pages
- English
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The Trailhead
About This Book
"I'm learning to allow for visions," the primary speaker of The Trailhead announces, setting out through a landscape populated by swan-killers, war torturers, and kings. Much of the book takes place in the contemporary American West, and these poems reckon with the violence inherent in that place. A "conversion narrative" of sorts, the book examines the self as a "burned-over district," individual and cultural pain as a crucible in which the book's sibyls and spinsters are remade, transfigured. "Sacralization/is when things become holy, also/when vertebrae fuse," the book tells us, pulling at the tensions between secular and sacred embodiment, exposing the essential difficulty of being a speaking woman. The collection arrives at a taut, gendered callingâa firm faith in the power and worth of the female voiceâand a broader faith in poetry not as a vehicle of atonement or expiation, but as bulwark against our frailties and failings.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Part I
- Part II
- Part III
- Part IV
- Notes
- About the Author